Is digital art? - Beyond Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:25 AM His name is Nick Pugh and he painted this collage of images directly on a laptop. He calls it digital plein air painting or digital impressionism. Woops, thanks for mentioning Nick, vintagegirl! I forgot to mention him because I think of him as working in just about every medium. One interesting thing about all the images you showed is that they were part of an exercise Nick was doing for a while with two self-imposed restrictions. His only tools were a laptop and a pen tablet, and he would finish each one in 10-15 minutes! He wasn't even using any special software with "painterly" brushes and such, just the basic photoshop brushes. Nick's ability to catch the right color tones and values is really impressive. Also, your comments about photography remind me of another art medium that has evolved over the years - animation cels. I think the initial reaction was that it was a pretty strange idea to sell those as art, since they were sort of steps along the way in the creation of a greater art - an animated film. They may still not be considered fine art in some circles, but there certainly is an enthusiastic art collector market for such works today. -Randy

His name is Nick Pugh and he painted this collage of images directly on a laptop. He calls it digital plein air painting or digital impressionism.

Woops, thanks for mentioning Nick, vintagegirl! I forgot to mention him because I think of him as working in just about every medium. One interesting thing about all the images you showed is that they were part of an exercise Nick was doing for a while with two self-imposed restrictions. His only tools were a laptop and a pen tablet, and he would finish each one in 10-15 minutes! He wasn't even using any special software with "painterly" brushes and such, just the basic photoshop brushes. Nick's ability to catch the right color tones and values is really impressive.

Also, your comments about photography remind me of another art medium that has evolved over the years - animation cels. I think the initial reaction was that it was a pretty strange idea to sell those as art, since they were sort of steps along the way in the creation of a greater art - an animated film. They may still not be considered fine art in some circles, but there certainly is an enthusiastic art collector market for such works today.

-Randy

Post #208157 by aquarj on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:25 AM