Ever notice how some people are so funny and insecure about change? That thought occurred to me after a conversation with a very nice woman who runs an arts center in mid-coast Maine. There was an event at which artists could show their work and since I haven't been able to do so yet, I thought it was a good opportunity. This woman had seen my work on line and cautioned me not to call my work digital paintings as she would get flack about it from other artists. I told her I would call them digital mixed media since some of them are based on the photos I take. But what of this my friends:
This is a digital painting which I created in both photoshop and in corel paint. Because I like to be a shite-disturber, I gonna bring it to that even and call it a giclee of a digital painting. Then this morning on my daily digital art email, was a link to a story by Joe Nalven that echoes this theme.
Then I ran across this story the other day about selling digital art (and video too I suppose). I've also reached out to the digital art community via the Digital Art Guild to see if there are any members from New England or Maine. I'm thinking of starting a Facebook page for local digital artists out here and perhaps we can do local shows the way the San Diego folks do.
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This morning, Ann Martin introduced a digital quilling site and asked readers their opinions. I said I thought it was inevitable and that digital does not equate to not creative, that creative minds will find ways to use technology to their artwork's benefit.
Six years since my son's graduation from high school and his HS no longer teaches photography using film. It's all digital.
As long as artists clearly label and are honest, I have no issues with giclees (what I object to is disreputable types passing them off as though they were hand painted on canvas) or other uses of digital photography. I've seen some enormously creative and beautiful digital images combined with more traditional art-making.
And Ann, I think your image is wonderful. I could imagine it also being used in some great collage.
thanks Maureen... you're right about being honest about the work.. which I feel I am...that's why I call most of my photo based work digital mixed media
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