All about Pixels (well, some stuff about them) People get confused about pixels, and resolution, and image size and things of that sort when considering digital images. Here’s a little chart that will help explain some of the terms and hopefully demystify the subject. Feel free to share. Just let
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Studio Tips: Here’s a little tool I fashioned for scoring paper/cardboard prior to folding it. It makes for a clean, precise fold.
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A digital painting step-by-step of the process behind the cover painting I did for a Full Cast Audio’s Space Cadet packaging.
Read more →Calculating Gallery Pricing Hey Artists! (or anyone who sells through a gallery or business that takes a commission) Here’s a formula you can use to price your work so that you end up with what you want for it once the gallery takes its commission. Let’s say you want to
Read more →[Originally published April 27, 2014] It’s an entirely misleading term, computer-generated art. Digital art, or even just art would be more accurate in most cases. Computer generated art conjures an image of someone sitting back with their arms folded watching while a computer auto-generates a painting. This couldn’t be further from the truth
Read more →Building a lattice cylinder in Strata Design 3D CX … a rough approach. Turns out as a tapered basket form, in spite of starting with a cylinder. Probably something off in the rotation of the initial rib. Or, in the Z position of the rotation center.
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Impressionist painters avoided using straight black in the shadow and dark areas of their paintings because straight-from-the-tube black is a rather lifeless color. They chose instead to use chromatic blacks (a.k.a. mixed black), which usually don’t contain any black pigment. They are mixed either on the palette or in advance
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En plein air is a French expression which means “in the open air” and is generally used to refer to the act of painting outdoors, It is also called peinture sur le motif (“painting on the ground”) in French. Typically, the painting is done on site, often in one session and depicts
Read more →Giclée (zjee-KLAY) is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name originally applied to fine art prints created on IRIS printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print.
Read more →Strata Forums This is what I’m trying to achieve… translucent plastic with liquid that diffuses/refracts light. This is what I have so far, after MANY hours of tweaking materials, lights, light domes… I want to get light refracting through the liquid. There’s a tiny bit of that along the bottom
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