Tuesday 2 January 2018

2017 ANNUAL REPORT / 1st QUARTER REVIEW


///////////////////////////

JANUARY 2017: ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL REMIXES OF ABSTRACT PAINTINGS


Above: Stealth, as a Digital Vector Image ( with texture )

One of the obvious down-sides of creating a painted composition, is that once it's sold, the design is no longer in your hands. In the case of my work, it takes months to finely balance a piece ( it's a form of automatic composition, in that apart from a starting grid, everything is ad-libbed until the picture 'feels' finished ). On that journey, many interesting forms and motifs may evolve. In late 2016 / early 2017, I decided to painstakingly go about re-creating some of my recent paintings in digital 'vector' form. This allows me to do two things: 1 ) Significantly enlarge the composition without loss of quality or pixellation; 2 ) Deconstruct my artwork so that it can be remixed, recoloured and recomposed.

Below: The original Stealth and Encryption, Acrylic on Canvas, 40cm x 60cm


Below: Stealth, as Digital Vector Image ( with texture )


( For more examples of vector experiments, see the link to January 2017, here )

///////////////////////////

FEBRUARY 2017: BLISS IN CONCRETE, Acrylic On Canvas, 60cm x 60cm



///////////////////////////

MARCH 2017: Up-and-coming American folk singer SYDNEY ROBINSON uses 'WOMAN DISROBING' for her debut digital single artwork.




//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////