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experimentation leads to more textured options and broader palette

Screenshot of painting tools and palette in development

The above screenshot is a snapshot into some of the incredible possibilities which exist for me painting digitally.

There are many programs out there and I can’t say that one is by far the best.  My understanding is that most graphic artists use Illustrator but since I started with Appleworks and haven’t exactly run out of new things to try - I continue with it.

The textured square in the wall paper is a new texture/color that I developed for a digital painting. I just recently figured out that I could copy an existing texture/color square as a starting point to build colors upon. 

I knew I could take a 1 inch square from a painting and turn that into my paint - or take a stock texture/color and make color adjustments, but I did not know I could copy an existing texture/color square from my palettes and make adjustments to that.

I figured out how to do all of these by using copy and paste shortcut keys and playing - there are no options for this on the edit menu. I don’t even know if the creators know one can do this.

If there is a point to this - whatever your medium of creativity - experiment! 

See Also

• Abstract Art Gallery
  home to most experimentation at Outhouse Studios
• NODE.London - Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London - March 2006
  I like the language of the first description - “experiment, play, and get involved” - these are my sentiments as well