Digital Sketch Pad

So I finally got around to testing all the iPad paint and sketch programs. So far "Layers Pro" is my favorite. this device is close to having a digital sketch book. The only issues that are holding me back from shouting its praises yet are resolution, pen quality/size and pressure sensitivity.

Any way here is my first real attempt at painting:

photo montage and drawings

"the walk"

Assemblage thoughts...

Assemblage art always fascinated me when I was at college. Although these images I'm doing here are quick studies/sketches and ideas and not final pieces where I intend to fully render original art, the process I'm going through is very similar to assemblage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblage_(art)

Instead of found "real" objects I'm using interesting or meaningful un copyrighted photos/non art from the web or my personnel collections, messing, sketching on top of or reworking to bring them together for a different intent. Digital art lends itself very well to this process and now with the amount of visual data being thrust at us via this medium every day its surprising more assemblage techniques and discussions are not more prevalent. Maybe it’s because as artists we are hung up on copyright or original art ideals.

Is assemblage “real art” if it’s not completely created from scratch?

If you want to display a can of beans in your image then where do you draw the line of re-creating it from scratch or the fact that using a real can of Heinz beans is important because doing so has some social context that matters more than the skill needed to replicate it?

Here’s some more assemblage related artists/work:
http://www.understandingduchamp.com/
http://www.marshabalian.com/sculpture/index.html
http://www.danlevin.com/recent.html
http://www.mariannelettieri.com/Site/About.html

Ted Gall appears to “assemble” his sculptures by creating a large library of his own assets to create all his outstanding visuals. That seems like the ultimate solution:
http://www.sfstation.com/images/ev/13/5213c.jpg

Or maybe I'm just trying to justify not taking the time to paint and draw like I used too...

sleepless night...

turns in to finishing up another quick sketch/composite

"siren"

the field

"the field"

returned

Got caught up in all the holiday cheer etc...forgot I even had a blog :)

"hallucination"

"the tree"

another quick photo montage

Not got much sketch work going agian yet, finding the barage of ideas and images are quicker to get layed out via this medium.

"demons"

quick photo'chop"

"leviathan"

Lost....

Yes thats right I'm fianlly watching LOST. Thats why I have not been posting. Very lame I know but it is a little addictive to watch the shows back to back from a DVD collection rather than waiting every week.

Anyway heres a rough of another creature.

"medusa"

a little more "Assemblage"

"cyclops"

Aspen Wallpaper

Had such a fun time with the photos I made myself a quick desktop.

Aspen trees

A trip to the mountain this weekend to see the aspen change!













The colors were just amazing.

adding some color

well only one to see how this scribble/photo/woodcut technique works with more than black and white!



"golem"

Quick color study

"a tired road"

Sunday composition

"unicorn and the sunflower"

re-worked "watcher"

completing out the origional intent for the sketch



"watcher"

re-work on "tired"

thought I should try to flush out the idea a little more!



"tired"

Real quick one.

"watcher"