Solving the Wrong Problem
technology’s quirks yield frustration’s art
Palette Crap - digital painting - art prints - Dan Beck 2007
As a result of upgrading my Mac’s operating system to something more fashionably late, my painting program has new and improved quirks. This seems to be the norm for technology - as I think about all the various pieces of equipment (not restricted to computers) that have such little quirks - even the locks on my car - rather mechanical - but still.
So the above digital painting was born somewhat out of frustration - it was about being able to build new texture/colors and save the palettes. In my attempts to not have the program crash, I tried removing all sorts or things - getting it to work and systematically putting them back until it failed again.
But as the way with logic sometimes - my successes did not have to do with my interventions but something different I cannot see.
But I was able to have fun scribbling and did save some new palettes finding out if I saved the piece first I had a much better chance of success - and at least a couple of fun new digital paintings and accompanying art prints.
See Also
- Process - gallery piece about finding out how to paint with paint from a section of one’s own painting - part of my current struggle to be able to save
- FUMARE: And Now For Something Completely Different - one of my blog practices is to do searches for phrases which I have written in an article that I like - searching for “something different I cannot see” this I found interesting - even though it is not otherwise particularly related - barring perhaps the human factor in all technology
