More art studios

[avram]

Back to Gowanus today, for more art. Some pretty amazing stuff.

I’ve been fiddling around with Photoshop, tryng to get the hang of the new painting engine. I’ve figured out how to make and save brushes, so I’ve got a brush palette that’s enough like the old one that I can still use it, while still having a few of the new brushes that the new engine allows. It’s not a substitute for actual physical painting with real pigment molecules, though. Some of the deep oil glazes I saw in the open studios had me almost mesmerized, and I want to see if I can get those effects in acrylic.

Comments

Chris says that's a beautiful fish.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a sucker for beautiful fish. Birds, too (hint, hint).

I checked out Ella Yang's website: she's startlingly figurative for someone you like. What do you see in her that's so special? I think she's good, but the online repros didn't blow me away. She reminds me of Ma's favorite painter, Milton Avery, I think with the way she uses color.

[avram]

I generally do like figurative. I also like good use of color, and Yang's work is really good that way, though it doesn't show up so well over the web. (Color matching over the web is a nightmare topic. You've gotta deal with the quirks in different operating system's color-handling, different color cards and monitors, and that's assuming that the input is accurate to begin with....)

Matt also agrees that's a beautiful fish

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that you drew it in Photoshop makes it even more impressive to me. IMHO the slickest work you've done on your website so far.

[avram]

Actually, I drew it on paper, scanned it, and then colored it in Photoshop.

[redbird]

Vicki agrees--that is a beautiful fish.

Rick Berry does that also

[(Anonymous)]

At foolscap (http://www.foolscap.org/guests.html), Artist Guest of Honor Rick Berry (http://www.braid.com/Androidiaei-0.htm) told us that he often does that = start with a drawing, scan it, then start pushing pixels around. In his slide show, he'd do a step-by-step description of how he started with a small sketch, scanned it in, brought in scans of old tools or metalwork, added on, extended the image by online drawing, etc. way cool!

Anita Rowland (http://www.anitarowland.com/)

Luke thinks it's a beautiful fish also.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

It really is a beautiful fish.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Yes it is.