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I worked hard today painting in acrylics. Not much to show for it, nothing to post here in real media, (still waiting for my camera, it arrived from Hong Kong but its at the airport till Monday, but there is nothing to photograph anyway.) I was trying to translate a #0736 Trees from the Thousand Sketches and it was hard. This sort of digital to physical is a challenge.
One thing I did, in a moment of frustration with real paint, was a new digital. It just flew out. It is like the one I was using for a reference, with a subtly different feel.
Bush
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It is now obvious why I found it hard. The mottled effect is done digitally by setting the paper to very rough on those layers. The light spots are pits in the “paper”. Maybe I need to forget about being too true to my digital version & go with the medium? Or maybe persist?
How would you do this in acrylic?
I thought that Yves Klein’s Blue must have been the purest blue #0000ff, all the blues and nothing else.
But not so. I discovered that IKB is in fact #002FA7
| #0000ff – Mathematially pure blue? | |
| #002FA7 – International Klein Blue | |
| #8B8BFF – mid-point light blue |
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I am reading a book, Digital art Studio, about print making using digital images and ink jet printers. Lots of info & ideas for using more traditional media in combination.
To get an idea check out the websites of the three authors:
I am busy gathering material, bought some “Rabbit Skin Glue” today, and InkAID.
Some images follow:
I have these in mind to experiment with in the printing. These are about how I want them to look, but I will try different plain paper, wartercolour etc, and use “vivid” versions to compensate for the absobtion. I might also try over printing.
And these might end up in my landscape presentation of prints in the usual way.
Landscape Pond
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Landscape Pond
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Leaves
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Now this one grew out of the last one. One thing leads to another. But the process is not done. I can see this leading to more “design” style images, I am getting the hang of it and using a few new functions I am learning in the software (like copying a layer and then moving it slightly etc)
But what do I do, work on the bush or play more with designs? So this is what happens… a myriad of scrappy projects that I love doing… To be honest I think I will get there. Sooner or later I’ll get a series done and they will a unified life.
Earth Crosses got there, though there is a printing job to finalise there.
Next post, more moves into different directions.
I am still mucking around with Microformats, Id do it on my Psyberspace blog but it is harder to fiddle there on Wordpress.com (must change it over to my own server. some time)
Have added a hCard to the bottom of the sidebar in the main view.
Some software will show up what is there eg Operator, Firefox add-on.
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It is not nothing to do with art. Here is a hCard for example for Andy Warhol. It is part of wanting to make maps of connections between paintings, art networks as net artworks. So I am exploring these Microformats and FOAF and JSON all things Google are getting into.
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Making links between painting and so on is definitely art for me, and it is very psyber. I will be blogging and linking these discussions in the Psyberspace blog.
Andy Warhol
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
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Here is another cross. This one is a hybrid. The back-ground is paint and the verticals are digital. There is no original either, the base image was from a shot I took of part of the canvas, resized from landscape to square, beefed up the image in post-production. I think it will make a good print.
I still have the 600×600 mm original acrylic but it got tortured out of recognition! A lot of agony & ecstasy.
This one shows a some of what I learned over the three days. Layers. Removing paint in a variety of ways. I will keep going with this. More hybrids, and perhaps the other way around too! I could print the vertical on the texture.
My goal is to make a set of physical ones.
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Some more from the workshop soon, I still have the photos to take.
Later: Saturday, 5 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
Photo of the view, first night on the workshop:
The next day I learned a lot about paint. My first real go at real-media in a long time, decades!
The focus and the exercises were great.
One small bit of real paint from my exercise sheet.
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I finished up doing some acrylic seed heads, but they are gone, apart from a digital sketch I made on the Tablet at the end of the day: the usual digital follows.
Poppy Seed
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I get asked from time to time what software I use. So here is a post to sum that up, I have done it before but it is out of date. Starting with what I use most. I can take images from one program to another, either whole or as layers.
ArtRage 2.5
It is my favorite because it has a good interface, and it can do a lot really well. It has some features no other programs have, or if they have them they are too hard to find or use.
ACDsee 4.
For some “post production” such as lightening or darkening images, changing the hue.
Corel Paint X
Very versatile, I can usually get the exact pen I want, and love discovering new ones.
Picasa
Other post-production. It can do some nice things like straighten & tilt.
Photoshop
It can do everything, I use it for printing.
Paint
This is the MS free one that comes with Windows. It is quick for text, and bucket fill.
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I have tried lots of others but these ones are the most stable. ArtRage has never crashed my machine, and all the others have. I have spent a lot on software, but the $25 for ArtRage 2 was the best value for money by a long shot.
Of course it is all personal preference, it depends on what you know and what you do.
