Wednesday, April 9, 2014

CES digital painting

I was recently commissioned, by Sony and a digital painting application company called ArtRage, to create a large digital painting for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which takes place in Las Vegas every January. I am not a digital painter but the ArtRage application is surprisingly similar to traditional painting. I would certainly recommend this program to any artist interested in digital painting.

Sony requested that I create one large painting completed in panels on more than 20 touch screen computers which were mountes on a wall. This made for an interesting effect, one large painting seen through "panes" almost as if seen through a window. I still need to piece together the entire image, because it was created over many separate computers, so I am only able to post the portrait panel of the painting today.



"Poppy Meadow" portrait detail

The intent with this painting was to create a visually beautiful and interesting painting, but without making any especially bold statements. After all, many thousands of people were to see this painting and Sony didn't want to distance any specific group of viewers. So, I proposed the concept of a very simple portrait of a beautiful young woman walking through a poppy field. The symbolism behind poppies has always interested me, so you will see them appear occasionally in my work.