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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #159, App Creating
Today I start a 3 day workshop in the ice cream capital of the world, Le Mars, Iowa. Teaching watercolors and eating ice cream, this is going to be good! I will let you know how it goes in next
week's newsletter, at which time I will be in the middle of teaching at Dillman's. June is looking to be shaping up nicely. If you want to join me at Dillman's next week, there still are spaces available. Come join me.
Above is the 1 hour demonstration I did for the River Arts Gallery in
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin last Saturday. What a wonderful gallery in a really beautiful small town. Thanks to all the artists that came out to see me demo.
This week's newsletter goes into something that I don't know yet how I feel about, I am talking about creating with apps. NO CLASS at the Civic Center Libertyville, Thursday, June 7th, 1:00 pm to
3:30 NO CLASS at the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation, Thursday, June 7th, 6:30 pm to 9 pm Yes to Class at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, June 9th 9:00 am to 11:30 am
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I recently looked at a catalog of the AWS show and then the TWSA show and I started noticing there is a growing number of artists that use application altered photos and then paint what the computer or phone generated for them. If you are not sure what I am talking about, keep on reading and looking at my examples that I generated with the computer and on my
phone below.
There are apps (applications) on our phone and computers that can take a photo and turn it into art or something that can look very painterly. I want you to look at the photos that I manipulated below and then I will discuss it after.
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The image of the street I manipulated in Photoshop and the other with a phone app called Photo Lab Pro and I created them in about 2 minutes.
Now to get back to what I saw in the exhibition catalogs where I saw paintings that I know were done by painting the image that the computer had created. You may ask, how do I know this,
and my answer is I have worked with the Photoshop application for over 30 years and I have manipulated photos and retouched them using most every filter that Photoshop has. I know a manipulated photo when I see one.
The street scene above was manipulated with a Filter called Cutout. This filter or a posterized filter is what I believe many of the painters that work this way use. It takes the image and simplifies the values, colors and cuts them into simple shapes.
The Dog was manipulated on my phone with a filter and I could have put over 50 different filters on it to make it look 50 different ways.
The paintings I saw in the catalogs were probably copies of what I am assuming the computer or a phone app had supplied the painter, and I have noticed in the last couple of years many of these paintings have won awards, and I believe they won awards because these paintings looked different in style and looked good and I believe that is a thing many
judges look for.
So, I am asking and talking to my weekly students about how they feel about using photos that have been manipulated with an app. If I used my image of the dog above that was app manipulated and I painted it exactly like the colorful image the app created would you think less of my painting or that I was cheating or do you not have a problem with this way of creating?
My verdict is still out on this issue and
I will have to think about it some more. These types of paintings are getting good recognition and winning awards so maybe it isn't even an issue at all, it may just be the next movement in art so I'll give it a name.... Computerism My BeckerArt Workshops and Demos in 2018
Dillman's Spring Workshop, Wisconsin, June 10-15th, For information Click
Here
Vermont Art Event Classes. Burlington VT, July 23rd -27th, Information to come
Dillman's Fall Workshop, Wisconsin, September 9-14th, For information Click Here
Artisan Materials Expo Classes, Santa
Fe, September 27th-30th, For Information Click Here
Perquimans Arts League, Hertford NC, October 15th and 16th, For Information Click Here
Jacksonville Watercolor
Society Workshop, Jacksonville FL, October 24, 25, 26 For Information Click Here
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Helen Klebesadel- Last Saturday while demonstrating for Dillman's I had the pleasure of watching other artists demonstrate at the festival. One of those artists was Helen and she did a nice job demonstrating. She will be teaching at Dillman's in the fall. It great seeing how many different styles there are in watercolor and
I get to meet so many wonderful artists that all paint so differently. There is no secret on how all these artists get different styles and are so good, the secret is paint a lot!
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6 BeckerArt Brushes
Thanks to all of you that have sent me your great reviews on my brushes,
I am so happy you all like them!
I now have 2 sets of BeckerArt Brushes... they are the original set which includes the 1 1/4" flat, the #16 round and the #4 rigger. My NEW brush set includes the 1/2" flat, the 1/4" flat and the #8 round Click Here to Purchase BeckerArt Brushes |
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