Digital Artworks

It has been a while since I last posted. I blame that on having had a life, in contrast to the work and sleep routine I was in before that. In March/April we went on a three week trip to Australia. It was the biggest adventure we’ve been on for nearly 15 years. After that I was sent on a week long trip to the US. That was nearly two months ago now but I’m still buzzing from the experience. One thing I realised is that there is no substitute for actually being in a place. Looking at photographs, watching films, listening to other people talk about it - it is all virtual traveling. The actual experience is so different.

An artist I’ve only recently discovered is Jeremy Enecio. He is currently studying Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He is a very able painter and his drawings have a lovely quality of line. He describes himself as having ’some sort of obsession with races, cultures, and evolution’ and some of the drawings and paintings I find most interesting seem to reflect that. One that first caught my attention was the The Unmoving Batibat in the finished art section.

Bolt city artist Kazu Kibuishi’s tutorial on how he creates a comic strip using traditional techniques combined with modern technology is very informative.

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If you visit computer graphics and digital painting websites regularly, you are bound have come across the work of Linda Bergkvist. The young Swedish artists work stands out because of its technical skill and imagination. She cites her influences as Tim Burton and Brian Froud but she also reminds me of the Symbolists and artists like Maxfield Parish.

When I first started a blog a few years back, I wrote about a few Code Art sites. Many used Flash to create the dynamic and sometimes interactive artworks. Some where using the open source programming language Processing, that is an extension of Java. So far, I haven’t created anything more interesting than a few spiralling lines but there are some interesting artworks being created by people like Jared Tarbell on his site complexification and other sites like Websites as graphs. Also, check out the collection on Flickr

Well, I’m still sitting here bleary eyed, trawling through my collection of links to artist’s websites and knowing that I should have climbed the wooden hill to bed by now. How about a link to an artist I bookmarked a while ago? Lori Earley paints haunting portraits of elegant women, sirens with long necks and huge eyes.

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A digital painting of a young man who lived in Italy, during the Renaissance.

The world doesn’t need any more phones, so I didn’t want to like it but the new apple iPhone does look quite - er well, tasty

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Here are some paintings I really like by Amy Bennett. She uses models to inspire her paintings. As she says,

‘The act of building models plays a critical role in triggering my imagination to develop images. The model becomes a stage on which to develop the psychological implications of belonging to a particular family, with all of its dramas, struggles and familiar routines. I think: this tree will be taken down after an old man crashes into it; a father will transform this lawn into an ice skating rink; this house will be abandoned after its residents are scandalized on the evening news.’

Even when she paints more traditional interiors, she imbues them with psychological drama, like in this painting. Some of her work reminds me of Edward Hopper.

I’ve been an occasional visitor to Mr Cornell’s site for a few years now. Packed to the brim with talent and humour, Bearskinrug doesn’t feel digital in its design but more like an elegant scrapbook from an opium addled Victorian gentleman accidentally transported into a 21st century virtual reality along with his armchair and cat. Err… or whatever.

Check out his sketchbook