Justin Quinnell is a very experienced pin-hole photographer. One of his latest creations is a photograph that took a picture over six months. The image was able to capture the sun’s path across the sky starting on December 19, 2007 and ending on June 21, 2008. Justin took the aluminum can camera and attached it to a telephone pole overlooking a suspension bridge. I really like the photograph because of how little it appears to be a photograph and more like an impressionist painting.
We can never get enough videos of artists’ work process. This video has Charlene Chua using Illustrator CS3 to create “Space Girl”. The drawing took approximately 60 minutes.
Thanks to an iPhone application called Brushes artists can digitally paint whenever the mood strikes. You can either paint over a photo or create a new painting from scratch.
The program features claims to have the best color picker available on the iPhone, realistic brushes, eyedropper tool, unlimited undo and redo, and zoom features.
This program seems to be something really useful and entertaining to artists. I am planning on getting this program and will write back a review on it later. Flickr group of Brushes users’ paintings.
The same technology behind Google Earth is now being used to view famous paintings. Google’s technology which allows users to zoom from space into a person’s back yard, now will also allow users to zoom into every brush stroke of some of the world’s greatest paintings. To make sure every detail is viewable, images of the paintings will be taken at 14 trillion pixels. It will be great to see all parts of the painting at a level most people can’t see even in person because they don’t let you get that close. I also think this technology will be used in many art colleges to teach about the painters.
William Betts takes security camera photos and using a system that converts the pixels of color into data that a machine can take and put a dot of paint to represent that pixel. The final result is a large format pointillism painting. I would enjoy seeing this in person because I have a feeling the photos do not give it a good representation. A full look at his portfolio shows more work using machine facilitated paintings.
Khoda is a 5 minute animation in which every frame was hand painted. Taking roughly 6,000 paintings and two years, this animation was inspired by the idea of being able to pause the animation at any point and have it be “like a painting.”
