Digital Art A Sin

I have always been a traditional painter, painting in oils and pastels but recently I have started working in digital art mainly to correct some photographs of my paintings. Then gradually I realized how amazing it was, and sometimes while experimenting a spectacular effect would occur. I compare this with dropping paint onto damp watercolor paper and getting a result I did not expect. However I find a great deal of resistance to digital work as if it is a crime, and I'm just waiting for the digital art police to take me away.......

Why does it cause so many comments, if you take a photograph with great technical and artistic skill and limit the print number it seems fine and accepted and yet the action is to set the camera correctly (not easy) and click. It therefore does depends on the skill of the photographer, you could give a person an excellent camera and send them to Brighton to take some pictures and one person will take a few plain snaps and another will produce stunning works with great meaning and mood. This is similar to digital art you need technical skill and artist temperament. What I find wonderful about the digital artists on Fine Art America is their interpretation of art whether abstract or realism. No two artists or works are the same. Although you can see a trend in the way artists use the computer for their works. It's incredible how different they can be.

The main issue seems to be that people think you only need to press a few buttons and no skill is needed and the computer does all the work. When you paint in oils however you have to have great skill, but you don't make the canvas from scratch or the paints (not these days) are you therefore cheating? Why not use tiny brushes for large areas surely a big brush is again cutting out the skill. Surely the main point here is what is painted. You could for instance paint in oils using paint by numbers or produce several pictures all the same. The point is your vision, do you love producing works of art do you relish every work you produce? Digital art has opened an amazing door allowing an out-spilling of emotion and creating without restriction.

Therefore enjoy every moment whether you prefer oils, pastels, watercolor, sculpture, photography or digital art.

I here a knock on the door, I think they (digital art police) are coming to take me away.......


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