We spend our lives around and within the internet, using email and text messages. But these digital layers of information have yet to integrate into our paintings. Why?
These images present us with quandaries. How do we combine the “real world” with “online world” … and should these screen images really be put in paint at all? How many of us use the internet to research subjects, collect images, learn techniques and gain inspirations, but don’t include the context of their harvest due to issues of taste and subject matter?
Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. As he says, the playing field is wide open. It’s time for us to invent and re-integrate our lives with our art works.
Launch your creativity for 2020 with this 30 day Creative Challenge. Connie Pierson How it works January 1-30 we’ll post a daily creative challenge to our website. V.Notes subscribers will receive this post in their inbox every day at 7am. If you want to participate, subscribe to V. notes. Help us grow! Invite your friends to …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9795″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In the early 1960s, Jasper Johns made a series of 12 artworks playing with a sequence of numbers. The numbers gave him an excuse to play with figure and ground, line and color. Sometimes the simplest challenges are the most fun. Today, overlap the numbers 0-9. Invent a typography, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10149″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For today’s challenge you’ll need some paper and a pen (felt tipped pens work great for this) so that you can draw a Continuous Line, a line that goes on and on without stopping, requiring you to concentrate a little harder on whatever it is that you’re drawing because …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9121″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Pictured above: Gamblin’s recycled Torrit Grey, a different color every year Oil paints have a bad reputation for being toxic, and many of the solvents and pigments can be, but oil paint itself is essentially friendly. In any oil paint tube are two ingredients: Pigment Oil Pigment The pigments in …
Texting and Internet in Film and Paintings
We spend our lives around and within the internet, using email and text messages. But these digital layers of information have yet to integrate into our paintings. Why?
These images present us with quandaries. How do we combine the “real world” with “online world” … and should these screen images really be put in paint at all? How many of us use the internet to research subjects, collect images, learn techniques and gain inspirations, but don’t include the context of their harvest due to issues of taste and subject matter?
Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. As he says, the playing field is wide open. It’s time for us to invent and re-integrate our lives with our art works.
(5 minutes) https://youtu.be/uFfq2zblGXw?list=PL2w4TvBbdQ3sMABf317ExCob_v6rW2-4s
IN FILM:
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IN PAINTINGS:
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