In the close-up you can see I've made (with a photoshop "action" (macro)) a thin white border and a grey matte. The grey is too light in these I find, so next time I'll make it darker to make the white line clearer.
Already earlier today I have taped up several prints on the cupboards in my kitchen. I'm considering taking down my old framed posters and just plastering every vertical surface in the place with prints of drawings and photos. It'll sure be a change, and be like a kid's room, and experience I never had, I was a very boring kid (for other kids, I mean, adults always loved me).
Better hope computers don't one day become sentient, as they will demand credit. After all the machine did the work, not you. (Computers are a godsend to the lazy.)
ReplyDeleteI love your drawings ! :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, laziness makes science progress. Long life to elevators ! :-)
I've never understood this idiotic idea that some people have that when it comes to art "the computer did the work". It shows a complete lack of understanding of art. If the meaning is that the printer physically zipped back and forth and applied the ink , well, ya, that's obvious. But I have yet to see Photoshop create anything on it's own. Any work of art created in Photoshop could be either terrible or good or awesome depending on the creativity applied by the person wiggling the mouse around. I don't see that as anything different than an artist wiggling brushes around. No one seriously judges artistic value by how many applied effects are present so whether it took longer or shorter time to apply certain effects or none at all - it's irrelevant - well, except to those infants who measure art by how many minutes of time were used making it. Just how many minutes were used anyway? No one can tell if an artist tried over and over and threw out many inferior results before finally achieving what they set out to. We don't give credit to the paper maker for a watercolour painting so why would we give credit to the computer for a digital art creation? Stupidity knows no bounds it seems, but it usually seems to go by the name "anonymous" on the web.
ReplyDeletePrints on the cupboards is an excellent idea. Somehow all the visitors we get at our home always end up sitting in the kitchen. I keep putting up pictures and taking them down, so in effect our kitchen has turned into an ever-changing photography exhibition, that everyone of my friends gets to see.
ReplyDeleteCertainly there are framed prints in the living room etc, but there IS something nice in photos blutacced in the kitchen...
"I don't see that as anything different than an artist wiggling brushes around."
ReplyDeleteAre you anything of a real musician if the guitar is producing all the sounds? ;-p
As soon as you use something that is not yourself, the question can begin to be asked, because something is intrisically responsible for doing part of the job...
But do the tools have artistic creativity?
One major example is photography: you're not creating anything, it's already there anyway! The artist is just capable of looking at it in a particular way, no?
"How do you manage to make those magnificent women's statues?
- Simple: I pick a large block of stone, and then I remove everything that is not the woman."
"It'll sure be a change, and be like a kid's room"
You haven't truly lived if you haven't tried this once. DELIBERATELY trying what it feels like to become like a kid again, in some way or another.
For some highly mysterious reason, my brother's kids LOVE Uncle Pascal's room.