Digital Art – Art Numérique
Above Image credit: artist/photographer “didier du 92″ as displayed
at online photo gallery www.zphoto.fr/
CLICK HERE to view more of Didier’s images
I came upon Didier’s incredible images above in a somewhat odd way. I thought to myself, hum…what if I did a Google Image search with the French translation of the term: Digital Art. And sure enough up popped some fantastic works that incorporated the title or tags “Art Numerique”. Perhaps you may want to try it sometime if you are seeking inspiration or specific research documents that may originate in a different language.
Digital Artist Magazine
I was surfing this morning and came across a new find: Digital Artist (Magazine). I think I’ll go check and see if they have it over at Chapter’s this weekend. Looks like some great content!
The latest Iissue 03 features the following:
2010 Creative hotlist – The emerging artists who will define the digital art world
Learn to airbrush – Custom brushes for Photoshop and Painter
Typographic art in Illustrator – How to create a decorative font
iPhone artwork – Sketchbook Mobile tips
FREE disc includes – Tutorial files, stock photos, brushes, vectors, fonts, textures and video tutorials
check out their website for more details and info about the previous two issues - www.digitalartistdaily.com/
Print on demand Art Portfolios
How cool would it be to have YOUR ART displayed in your very own slick printed magazine!
Talk about professional looking!
I was over at theartblog.org this morning, and came across their post about MagCloud. Being curious, I clicked over to the MagCloud website to read more.
image from MagCloud website – http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/53757
“MagCloud started as an HP Labs incubation project to evaluate new, online marketplaces for buying and selling custom and niche magazines with print on demand fulfillment. MagCloud is inventing new ways to bring consumers and publishers together in a web-based marketplace where choice, flexibility and print on demand are the cornerstones of the community.” snippet from their website
What caught my eye is a great new feature they are working on that would make creating your art or photo portfolio a breeze:
“It’s our mission in life to make magazine publishing accessible to everyone, so we are putting the finishing touches on a great new feature that lets you easily turn your online photo albums into a magazine without leaving MagCloud’s website.” snippet from their website
see more, read more about MagCloud on their website: http://www.magcloud.com
Digital Printmaking Workshops for 2010
Here is a very short list of upcoming specialty workshops that focus on Digital Fine Art Printmaking, Alternative Digital Printmaking, and Digital Mixed Media for 2010. I am sure there are many others available ( I will add to the list as I come across them OR if you happen to know of any in your area, please email the details to me as I would be happy to add them to the list.
*New Addition – Feb 11,2010
Gary Wornell Digital Printmaking Workshops
Instructor: Gary Wornell
Location: Riihimäki, Finland
2 Day MASTERCLASS in March:
20.03.10 – 21.03.10 (Saturday – Sunday)
2 Day Workshops in April and June:
09.04.10 – 10.04.10 (Friday – Saturday)
05.06.10 – 06.06.10 (Saturday – Sunday)
2 Day course outline 2 Day Printing course
4 Day Workshops in April, and June:
17.04.10 – 18.04.10 and 24.04.10 – 25.04.10
(Saturday – Sunday – 2 weekends)
17.06.10-20.06.10 (Thursday – Sunday)
Gary Wornell regularly gives 2 and 4 day Digital Printmaking Workshops at his studio in Riihimäki, Finland. The courses are designed for artist professionals and skilled amateurs as well as photographers and traditional print makers who wish to expand their craft printing repertoir.
The courses are lively, energetic and informative and provide a perfect starting point for beginners and advanced printmakers to explore new territory. With a good selection of Epson Large Format Stylus Pro and Stylus Photo printers, everyone can find out just what makes these printers so versatile.
Previous workshops have included participants from other parts of Europe interested in meeting like-minded artists and the result is a cross fertilization of ideas and techniques. Bookings can be made several months in advance with courses running in two and 4 day blocks as well as 4 day workshops spread over 2 weekends.
Gary Wornell Workshops – website page
*New Addition – Jan.25,2010
Santa Fe Workshops: Fine Art Digital Printmaking
Instructors: David Saffir & Jack Duganne
February 28 – March 6, 2010 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Our third year! Make your photographic vision come to life in this Advanced Photography Experience/Digital Lab workshop. Join two accomplished photographers and fine art printmakers, Jack Duganne and David Saffir for this exciting, hands-on journey from a photo shoot on-location in the Santa Fe area, through high-intensity classroom sessions in image processing and editing, all the way to printing your new color or black and white images on brand-new state-of-the-art HP pigment-based inkjet printers. This is a work-group style session, with one-on-one work. This limits the workshop to a dozen or so participants, so enroll early and reserve your spot.
David Saffir Santa Fe Workshop website
David Saffir’s Blog
Painterly Print-Digital grounds for Fine Artists & Photographers
Instructor: Sandie Bacon
March 6, 2010 – 12-5pm (Water Street Studios, Batavia, Il)
Using our new digital grounds(Golden) we can print images from our computer’s printer on any of a variety of surfaces: paint skins, gels, acetate, metallic papers, etc. These are wonderful techniques for mixed media artists, creating layers, or for limited edition multiples. Printing on transparent surfaces is also terrifc for artist cards and ornaments.
www.goldenpaints.com
Water Street Studios website
B&W Printmaking: Classic Fine Art Aesthetics- Digital Tools
Instructor: Rich Seiling
June 2-6, 2010 (Yosemite National Park)
September 15-19, 2010 (Yosemite National Park)
Participants in this workshop will learn how to craft B&W photographic prints with a classic fine-art aesthetic, using digital tools. The main emphasis is on learning how to make expressive decisions in Photoshop to create files that can be output on any device. We’ll also explore film and digital options for image capture, portfolio development, and output options.
Incorporating Digital Technology: Mixed Media Digital Printmaking Workshop
Instructors: Mary Taylor & Christopher Shore
June 8 – 11, 2010 (Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT)
4 Days, Tues. through Fri., 10am- 4 pm June 8 – 11, 2010. Explore how new digital printmaking tools can be combined with traditional printmaking. Experiment with fine art digital printing processes. This workshop is for artists who want to go beyond the “flat” digital print by using fine art papers, collage materials, and traditional media. The emphasis will not be on the final product but focused on exploration, experimentation and helping participants develop new techniques that are complimentary to their existing talents.
www. marytaylorart.com
www.contemprints.org
Adventures in Mixed Media Collage with Acrylics
Instructor: Bonnie Cutts
Date: July 19 – 23, 2010 - 9 – 4 (Grand Marais Art Colony,MN)
From Thunder Bay, Ontario, it’s only 80 miles to Grand Marais, MN
Get ready to embark on a creative journey of mixed media art while applying all sorts of acrylic paints, gels and gel skins to a variety of luscious surfaces. Bring along images (high contrast photos or drawings no larger than 5” x 7”) you wish to collage onto your canvas. You will scan and print them onto acrylic skins that you run through an inkjet printer. Sound amazing? It is. Add excitement as you become familiar with other image transfer techniques that you can playfully work into your artwork. Apply multiple layers of paint and gels and watch your images take on a life of their own. Make your marks and make your statement as you paint, draw, collage and paint some more. Clean color mixing and interference and iridescent paints will be introduced, along with different grounds that are available to the painter. Relax, loosen up and have fun creating pieces of art filled with your own personal touches as well as gain a ton of useful information about the acrylic materials you will have available to use throughout the week.
A Digital Stretch Workshop in Santorini,Greece
Instructor: Mary Ann Rolfe
Oct 9-16, 2010 (Santorini, Greece)
A Digital Stretch in Santorini
During this workshop students will learn techniques to produce Digital Glass, Translucent Window Panels, Digital Tiles, Digital Jewelry & embellishments along with material choices, transfer techniques, printing tips for these techniques, generating ideas, a variety of professional assembling and finishing techniques, problem solving, workflow methods for overcoming blockages, mental and physical tips for stimulating and maintaining creativity. Exploring Digital candles, boxes, textiles and using the student’s digital camera files to generate images will be explored as time permits. The power of the computer will be demonstrated although this workshop is also suitable for students who don’t use the computer. It is more about what to do with images than creating the images.
http://toscanaamericana.com/rolfedigitalsantorini.html
www.digitalstretch.com
Create your own personal PhotoBlog
Screen shot of aminus3 photoblogs site
Surfing the net this morning, I came across a very cool site to share with you, whether you are an avid photographer, or photo lover. Aminus3 is an awesome photoblog hosting service and photography community providing photographers with a fully hosted, ‘image a day’ photography blog website. And it’s free to join!
Packed with oodles of features, one that stands out for me is that you can connect to many other web sites and services via your own RSS reed to further promote your photography. Photographers can link up with other photoblog communities and sites such as VFXY, CoolPhotoblogs and Photoblogs.org.
For photo lovers, you can browse photoblog images by date, colour, category, tag, or do your own search!
see more, read more, visit their site: Aminus3 Photoblogs - www.aminus3.com
