Digital Painting Art (182)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Todd L Thomas - Known as "The Artist of Vivid Color", Mr. Thomas coined this statement: "In a world that can be so dark at times, why add to that darkness? Why not shine alittle light?" That statement has been thoroughly expressed and illustrated in his artworks....

Todd L Thomas - Caren Keyser - My expressionist paintings are done using an intuitive process. I begin with the paint and then allow the paint and my subconscious to lead me to the subject matter. Exciting interactions between colors evolve from brushwork, pouring, glazing, spraying and other techniques. I strive to show the essence of the subject rather than paint an overly realistic image. I never know what I will find next in my work. I hope it will be dramatic and emotional. Note that the paintings are not framed. ------------------------------------- I began painting professionally in 1977 after studying art at Florida Atlantic University. There I explored the many styles and techniques available to the acrylic painter. My first photo-realism style piece was created while attending FAU. I knew from that moment that realistic nature scenes would be my style of choice. This remained my theme and style until after 2005. As time has passed my work has changed and become more creative in its processes. Color is still the dominant feature in my work. As my focus has shifted toward expressionism I stored my realism pieces. The originals of many of them are still available for purchase and are included in my inventory here at ...

Paul Pinzarrone - This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. It is an exploration of candy-colored sensual puzzles printed on high gloss aluminum or on metallic paper and plexiglas. Viewers are drawn in closer to feel comforted yet disturbed, to wonder if it is science fiction or science illustration, mythology or my updated version of art history. This work is my exploration of the dream world around me. This work is digital. I use fractal software, flame painter and amber light software, painting software and digital photography. The patterns are built up using transparent fractal layers, sometimes wrapped around figures and sometimes they become the environment. Their skin is my canvas and the viewer determines if they are photographs of tattoos, painted figures or something else other-worldly. Before I call it art, it must be new....

Ata Alishahi - When I make art, whatever my medium, I enter an internal world of light and creativity, and I escape the external world of shadow and destruction. While I am painting, I not only live in this light-filled world, I create it. In this sense, I have always made art for myself to alleviate my own suffering and the painful memories of the war and violence I witnessed, even as a child. Yet although this work is therapeutic for me, my finished pieces also ask the viewer to join me in experiencing these beautiful worlds, and celebrating the triumph of light and color over darkness. I paint with the same precision and techniques that traditional artists use, but via the digital medium. I became fascinated with digital technologies during my work in computer industry, and I educated myself in the software that enabled me to make art using this extraordinary new method. Although I prefer this medium, I recognize that every visual image, regardless of how it was made, is primarily a message, a story to be told and interpreted. My work tells the story of a world without darknessaEUR"a world that the viewer longs to enter. My goal...

Pauline Van De Ven - I am a digital painter exploring the new medium of vector. My painting developes in cycles from figurative to abstract and back to figurative. They are two poles of a magnet. Critics donaEURtmt like this but Picasso did it too so it canaEURtmt be totally wrong. To me a painting is the reflection of a human soul. Only if the soul is deep enough the painting will be deep enough. Of course the painteraEURtms soul is in the painteraEURtms blind spot and few collectors are able to look through the veil of time. What interests me in vector painting is that vector is a balanced cooperation between the artist and the computer. Lines forms and colors are made by hand and behind the screen the computer ties them all to mathematical formulas known as Bezier curves. This gives them more simplicity more contrast and a higher resolution than can be achieved by hand. Colors are pure monochromes or very fine computer-calculated gradients. While there is hardly any art in vector yet, its amazing property of fixed resolution makes it popular in advertising. aEUR~Ceci est un oeufaEURtm 2015 expresses my initial dislike of vector. The hard ...