Andy Morgan Art: digital medium painting

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

"Bird", a digital medium painting by Andy Morgan.

Here's one of Andy Morgan's digital paintings that-- like all his other paintings in this medium-- he completed manually via the computer paint and touchscreen programs, applying the plastic tip of a pen barrel and/or pen cap to a computer touchscreen, very much like he or any other artist would apply paint brush to canvass to complete an oil, acrylic, watercolor, or chalk in the more traditional media. The painting is called "Bird". Andy spent a few days on it. He spends a few days on lots of his pieces. Then again, on some pieces he'll spend but an hour or so of time, and be done with them.

"Cardinal", a digital medium painting by Andy Morgan.

Another digital painting by Andy Morgan. It might be worth noting that the quality of computer touchscreens varies quite dramatically, expecially in respect to how accurately and sensitively a touchscreen responds to the artist's "brush strokes" when it's in "paint" mode. Andy used an old touchscreen that was of exceptionally high quality in that respect; the newer touchscreens available to him were-- still are-- quite nice, but an individual with exceptional artistic talents needs a touchscreen of exceptional quality, not a merely nice one.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"Dad's House", "Computer Monitor", "Somewhere Atop Lookout Mountain" are digital medium paintings by Andy Morgan.

Dad's House (digital medium painting)

These are digital medium paintings. This (digital) medium is further described in one or two of the posts above and below this one. Suffice it to say, though Andy's digital paintings are completed using the computer paint program and touchscreen, they're still painted manually, so to speak. The touchscreen acts as canvass, the paint program provides the palette, and (for Andy) the tip of a plastic pen barrel or pen cap acts as paint brush. As he paints, he works his paint brush (pen barrel or pen cap tip) manually from side to side and from top to bottom of his canvass (touchscreen), much as he would on any traditional media painting. (Or is it from side to side and bottom to top? Or center-out? Or outside-in? Andy seems always to have a very definite strategy in his approach to his subject, and it seems sometimes rather complex to say the least.) Andy now works almost exclusively in the more traditional media, however-- chalks, watercolors, etc.

Computer Monitor (digital medium painting)

Somewhere Atop Lookout Mountain (digital medium painting)

"Ships At Sea", "November 2006", "Andy's Room, Chatsworth, Georgia", "Road Trip", & "Van Gogh Portrait" are digital medium paintings by Andy Morgan.

Ships At Sea (digital medium painting)

November 2006 (digital medium painting)

Andy's Room, Chatsworth, Georgia (digital medium painting)

Road Trip (digital medium painting)

Van Gogh Portrait (digital medium painting)

Usually, Andy uses the blunt (or not-so-blunt) tip of a plastic pen barrel or pen cap to complete his "digital" paintings, using pen barrel or pen cap to manually "paint" on his canvass (his canvass, in this medium, being the computer touchscreen). The computer's "paint" program provides his palette, from which he chooses and mixes his colors. The process is analogous to painting in traditional media. The pen barrel or pen cap acts as his paint brush, the touchscreen his canvass. Almost all, if not all, of Andy's collection of digital (or computer) paintings were completed 3 to 6 years ago; he's pretty much gone over to the more traditional media, since. By the way, the painting "November 2006" got its title from the fact that it was completed in November 2006. In case you were wondering.