These are not her images. I just was goofing around on Photoshop.We share an affinity for color fields, barns, and landscapes. See her blog here.
16 February, 2007
Colorist Art
These are not her images. I just was goofing around on Photoshop.We share an affinity for color fields, barns, and landscapes. See her blog here.
How thoughtful of you to share her blog with us Casey. I will look at it as soon as I can. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention Casey!
ReplyDeleteCasey
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about these photoshop images? Although you describe it as goofing around I suspect that there is more going on there - yes?
Thanks for the question, Philip.
ReplyDeleteI did some (well-liked) pastel abstracts a while back, and I was applying some of that to these photoshops.
While I do like them better than the yellow ones that accompanied a previous van Gogh post, I am somewhere between dislike and ambivalent about them.
Maybe I don't like photoshop. I certainly am under-accomplished at these computer tools, and probably intimidated by them.
Photoshop abstracts are hopelessly, IMO, two-dimensional. As the artists here know, the traditional fine art painting and drawing mediums are not limited to the 2 dimensional plane, although they seem to be at first glance.
Maybe a good thread idea, eh?
I'll let someone else run with it, though, since I am too disinterested in computer art, myself.
I thought you might like her Casey!
ReplyDeleteHmm. Well digital art isn't traditonal art but there are many practicioners all over the world who do this. Perhaps it will become a tradition therefore! I am not sure what you mean by 'artists here'etc. Don't quite understand why you posted these 2 pictures in the light of what you say - the second one looks quite 3-D to me btw.
ReplyDeleteDon't assume the consequent in my arguments. I certainly don't condemn the computer arts as a whole. I just don't take to them myself.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, before my years are over, I may have generated some computer art myself!
I am glad for any value seen in these simple Photoshop abstracts. The main thing I mean about the old school art mediums like oil painting or pastels, is that light passes through layers, and returns to the viewer's eye. There is a 3-D environment that we (my little group of artist chums who post comments) recognize, and leverage in our works.
Of course, I don't know if anyone can ever see this in the jpegs on this computer screen.
Some PC geek out there will probably have a whole spin about CRTs and light emanating from the screen. And that's fine; it's a good thread of interest.
I totally thought about the 3-D aspects of the second one, but I continue to see it as a false note. The elements on the screen are 2-D, although different illusions may develop.