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.
[image_with_animation image_url=”8367″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I asked Claire Putney to name some of the inspirational watercolor painters for her upcoming workshop Watercolor Landscapes. She listed: Sunga Park Maria Ginzburg Walton Ford Z L Feng In the next week I’ll share artwork by each of these painters. Today I have work by Z L Feng. …
Tennis said he grabbed a crayon at random, and slowly started making a line on the paper. He tried not to think about where the line was going or dictate where it went. He’d just let it go, as if he was watching a bug walk across the page. This “not thinking” thing is difficult …
For the 26th day of our 30 day January challenge, I focused on memory. The instructions were as follows: Draw what’s in your fridge, from memory Open your refrigerator and look at what’s inside. Close the refrigerator, and draw as much as you can remember. When you can’t remember enough to draw any more, then take another look inside the refrigerator. …
Above: A beautiful example of multi-layered blending by Sharon Kingston Blending The most common way to kill the vitality in a painting, blending is a smooth transition between two colors, painted when wet. This is difficult to do with acrylic because it dries so danged fast, so using a slow drying paint like Golden OPEN Acrylics might help. 3 Blending …
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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