Afterwards viewing “Swirling Winds” I realised this had similarities with my clever photographic series of works you can see in my blog article Oak Branch Astronomy. For this very reason I named the artwork Swirling Winds.
“Swirling Winds” itself an acrylic is made from a blank canvas in precisely nineteen minutes ten seconds (19m10.57s).
The canvas is sixteen inches across, therefore this is very quick instinctive art working for an impasto. Please do click on the image for yourself to see the level of detail, complexity and artistic intellect required to make this piece.
Some artworks wow audiences due to their immediate eye-catching beauty. This is one of them.
To produce a strong work within twenty minutes made me very happy. Even more so considering this interconnected with an earlier artworking idea.
Those knowing my genuine interest in manmade climate damage problems can appreciate Swirling Winds communicates layers of idea.
“Unification of Colour #2” builds upon my Unification series of artworks. The #1 version you can see here in another blog article which includes Unification of Colour #1.
Produced quickly, intuitively and with careful artistic skill in less than half an hour approximately.
I feel my Unification series art very much humanitarian works without political commentary.
I love the harmony of colours.
nb The image for “Chance Face with Yellow Silver Gold” shown immediately above is with minimal editing including natural light upon the canvas. It is a fair likeness, however the silver is represented differently due to the outdoor light.
I made “Chance Face with Yellow Silver Gold” in nineteen minutes and one second. This included a quick pseudo-second draft of one minute ten seconds to palette two present paint-on-canvas applications, one of white, one of silver. I noticed these two paint areas needed paletting after originally stopping the timer at 17m51s.
The following day I could see a central face with eyes, mouth and nose whilst in the evaluation process. Due to this I decided to retain the artwork as we see here, modestly perfect as can be. Pure palette work.
I then changed the working title from ‘Definition #1’ to “Chance Face with Yellow Silver Gold”. I try to create the most memorable artwork titles to describe the visual representation.
Nineteen minutes, one second :]
The digital artwork I produced is nice too, immediately below:
Whilst writing this article I decided “Chance Face with Blue Red Umber” would have a new title, even though this is derived from “Chance Face with Yellow Silver Gold”.
A Solarscape is a computer-generated effect from an original utilising my expertise in fine-tuning the tones, balance, light etc. Therefore we can view this process like photographic editing using a high-quality filter altering my work to produce a contrasting digital version.
For me with AI or computer-aided technology, and this is an opinion, an artist should be involved in the conceptualisation process in some way. Without “Chance Face with Yellow Silver Gold” there is no “Chance Face with Blue Red Umber”.
Conceptualisation is an artistic effort. It’s as simple as that.
Without the ‘Spin Paintings’ by Damien Hirst in 1992 we wouldn’t arrive at a collectors’ interactive AI generated ‘The Beautiful Paintings’ in 2023. Of this creative continuation through Hirst’s career we have a quotation from the internet which reads:
“In 1975, he became transfixed by an episode of the children’s television show Blue Peter, featuring the television host John Noakes creating colorful paintings from a motorized cardboard spinning machine.”
Everytime an artist produces a style there is a driving force behind the intellectual derivation.
For instance, let’s say “Unification of Colour #1” and “Unification of Colour #2” displays a possible rule. One is primarily diagonally produced, whereas the other artwork shows palette verticals and horizontals..
.. like a subconscious game of chess.
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