Is Painting Relevant?

The following piece is an extract from an essay I wrote, termed "Is painting Dead". The full version will be published at a later date.

Today's art may be as various as the world that surrounds it, and painting may now co-exist with a multitude of new media such as installation, performance, and digital, yet this multifariousness does not prevent artists of all generations from embracing the traditional medium with gusto. Painting continues to prove irresistible to artists and collectors alike. However, no matter how much artists diversify, there is something infinitely seductive about paint. Both in the cultural messages that it sends out and in the sheer transformative qualities of the paint itself to conjure up an extraordinary range of illusions and effects. There is no reason to suppose that the trend will stop.

Photoshop Tips

This audio presentation describes a step by step process of selecting and cropping images, using Photoshop CS2. Also, incorporated in the podcast is a short survey. The purpose of this survey is to help listeners recall and understand the instructions. Hopefully, this instructional podcast can be repeated in the future; depending on feedback.

ELECTRON HAZE & TRANSFORMATION

This video continues my experimental stuff. The animation represents the electron cloud around an atom. I tried to as close as I could to represent electrons as derived from math modelling. The second part of the video (The black background) I used artistic licence to visualize different aspects at the atomic level.

AVES-1

This is one example from a series of bird prints that I produced last year. The title AVES is just the latin word for "bird" and the 1 refers to the first edition in the series. From time to time I will post further prints and paintings, as time allows. The edition for this print is only 2. Further details: type - Etching, aquatint, printed on archival 100% rag paper, size = 18.5 x 13.0 cm.

GIG POSTER

This is a poster for Design Elements & Principles. The design brief is to produce a poster (advertisement) promoting a product of one's choice. I choose my local art gallery called GiG.

Evangelium

A short video that I put together by playing around with a drawing program. Enjoy.

PODCAST ON MEDIEVAL MUSIC

This is a podcast related to the mind map below. From now on I will be presenting regular podcasts monthly on a variety of news and opinions.

Audio report mindmap

Here is a mind map to illustrate my ideas for an audio report.

WoW-2

This is my second experimental video. The image is a fractal composed on Apophesis by Anthony Klyza (http://monochromatic-stains.deviantart.com. I used the image in photoshop and manipulated it using Photofiltre. Enjoy.