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Showing posts with label Corel Painter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corel Painter. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Feed the Birds...
8:36 AM | Posted by
the road less traveled...
Earlier today I visited Different Strokes from Different Folks and saw the image of the week...a man sitting on a bench reading the paper. No one had yet painted it....looking at it I am not at all sure as to why...but the song "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins popped into my mind. I was not really a big fan of Mary Poppins as a child....but that one song stuck with me....a bit haunting.
Just as Mary Poppins is a childhood memory, so too was visiting the neighborhood park (Highland Park in Brooklyn) and watching the older folks play board games, sit on the benches feeding the birds, and yes, some actually read books and the paper as in the original image. As a child my eyes were drawn to those either chatting with themselves, or feeding the birds. Oh...no animals were harmed in any way during the course of this painting ;-)
While digital art is not to be included among the many lovely paintings that are shown each week....I just could not resist having a quick go at it.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Art...or Not...
I have been wondering...just why is digital art looked upon as the ugly step child in the art world? While my venture into the art world is new...having just began my art journey a few years ago (almost 50 to boot)....and I am a self taught artist...oh yes....I can hear the moans and groans....I mean really just what is art and what makes an artist...or how to become an artist??One day while working on a photograph in Photoshop I was very frustrated and remembered I had gotten Corel Painter bundled with some software...yep for free. I loaded it onto the PC and started playing and boy was I hooked. I was not at all into art during my younger years in school. Sort of backwards I guess for most people getting into Painter have an art background. I am now just developing a curiosity about other mediums. While I really do not think most think of Digital Art in a bad light....each year it is getting more and more popular.....a very good thing indeed ;-)
The painting of the day is called Beach House and it is a very quick little digital painting....tomorrow back to pastels.
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