Saturday, June 22, 2013

Digital painting

Digital painting can be a fun use of artistic experimentation. One such site is called pyskopaint and is one of the apps available on Chrome. Here are a few of my first tries.
Brown Trout on Rainbow Rocks

Fancy Nancy "Lizzy"

Lizzy Busy, always up for a pose.

The site is fun, but rather addictive.  These are all manipulations of photos, but I have some paintings from scratch as well.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Religious Art

Caravaggio is one of my favorite painters. In this painting Saul of Tarsus having seen an angel is thrown from his horse and becomes a Christian convert. In art throughout the ages man has taken various approaches to convey testimony and tell story, from literal story telling, to symbolism. Even landscapes can be said to be included in the realm of religious paintings. What works inspire you? How do you convey those things which cannot be easily spoken?