Week 13 Research

 

The artist I picked today is Thomas Broadfoot. He doesn't share a lot of personal information online but he has said that he has self-taught himself digital art. He uses 3d rendering and landscape programs to create his art. I find his art very compelling. The sailboats and the sunset in this picture caught my eye. He has a whole series around the theme of sailboats and sunsets.

Week 13 Research

Michael Sussna is an American digital artist. He was born in New Jersey, in 1950. He gained his bachelor's at Sonoma State University, his master's from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and his doctorate from UC San Diego. Despite all of his past education in computer science and similar fields, he never studied art. He is a self-taught artist and he has created fractal art ever since 1985. It is unsure how he creates his artwork since he describes it as "geometric, yet organic." It's more abstract and original than traditional fractals. 'Hacienda' and 'Moonlight Surface'  are the pieces you see below. The first thing that I notice and appreciate is that there is no color in these images. This results in more of a focus on the fractal design rather than distractions around the design. I particularly like that the hacienda piece looks very similar to a computer chip, giving it a more science-fiction look. In moonlight surface, there is a clear inspiration and look to the surface of the moon. The random array of the "craters" that are spread throughout the piece is a unique aspect that I liked looking at while researching. 

Here is Sussna's website: https://www.sussna.com/

Week 13 Research

For Week 13 Research, I chose Peter Hammond's Venetian. Peter Hammond is from San Diego, CA, and he started on photography in 1989. He uses mostly vertical and horizontal lines with not much deep perspective. I chose this one just because It's cool. I did not see any deep meaning behind it, but I found very interesting and well made this collage. Also, this type of art makes me feel interested looking for all details in the picture, letting my imagination to complete how the full image from each cutted photo looks like.

research week 13

 

i picked this because it looked relaxing. Simple not doing too much, there is no meaning behind this, but it was made by Tom R. Chambers, a maverick in the realm of digital art, who has been a dedicated educator in the field for many years. Currently, he serves as a visiting lecturer at Zhaoqing University in Zhaoqing, China, focusing on digital and new media art and digital photography within the Fine Arts Department.

Week 13 Research

In Magnani's photographs, iconic heroes take on a relatable guise as he captures them not in regular attire but in elaborate costumes. This approach unveils a charming and unexpected side to these characters, portraying them as unique individuals distinct from the expected norm. 

Sebastian Magnani's journey into photography sparked during his media design apprenticeship, leading him to transition from a 5-year stint in advertising to pursuing photography professionally in Zurich. His showcased works draw inspiration from a conversation centered around the coolest superheroes, fueling his artistic projects. 

I choose these artworks because i thought it was really funny of batman doing out of the norm things that people would think he would do.

https://www.sebastianmagnani.com/

Paul Piorkowski - Week 13 Research Assignment

 The artist I chose to share this week goes by the name Elk. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Elk has been making artworks since 2006, with both physical and digital media. Their artworks often depict animals, and often in fantasy settings. The software they use for digital art are Photoshop, InDesign, Paint Sai, Clip Studio, Illustrator, and AfterEffects.

I again chose two pieces to share this week, both done for the card game Magic: the Gathering. This first piece is titled Snow-Covered Mountain, and belongs to a card of the same name. It depicts a young mountain goat standing on a cliffside looking over the mountains through the trees ahead of it, capturing a pleasant scene conveying the majesty of a silent winter morning.

This next piece, from the same set as the first, is titled Snow-Covered Plains, again belonging to a card of the same name. It depicts an owl flying over a snowed out field, with all but the trees completely buried in snow, with a golden background possibly showing a sunrise. This piece, to me, feels almost nostalgic, like waking up early on Christmas morning as the sun is just starting to rise, excited to open presents.

Elk64's website: illustration and graphic design - Site de elk64 ! (jimdofree.com)

MOCA Week 13- Andre Marcano

 

This piece is called "Towers and Torments" by Don Archer. 

    Don Archer created this piece using AI which is what he has been using to create his work since the 90's. He touched on fractals and a lot of other methods of making art. He doesnt have a direct summary of his life but instead has a post made dedicated to his family back in 1903(https://moca.virtual.museum/adon/personal/personal01.htm) and you can find a huge array of his work here:https://moca.virtual.museum/adon/abase.asp

week 13 research

 

This piece looks like a forest.  I picked it because I like calm photos, and even though it seems a bit fuzzy, I can tell this is a forest, which in turn is peaceful. It was painted by John Hughson, and there is no meaning behind this painting. 

Week 13 Research Assignment (Toby M)

 

Link: KKC Bauder 

    This week, I chose the artist KKC Bauder. She began her career over 20 years ago as a traditional painter. But, as time passed, she fell in love with digital art. Bauder is a full-time second-generation artist in the field of digital painting and she uses a combination of digital painting and digital sculpting. Working from Texas, she has her own studio and also provides workshops for young people interested in art. "I create abstracts ranging in style from figurative art to digital rock" (Bauder). For Bauder, as fame hit her, the art she has made has been collected in both the US and Europe and also has been on exhibit in many galleries in Florida, Texas, and Germany. 

    As I chose this artist, the colors in this painting are very vibrant and stand out so choosing a piece of art was easy. As I was going through her gallery, she has a lot more paintings like this. In my opinion, it reminds me of the whitecaps of the ocean waves. I also like how it's symmetrical on both sides. To paint symmetrically, it must be a hard task to get everything right. 

Week 13 Research assignment - Hayden Grigas

 

This piece was also created by Don archer included in a massive collection of AI created pieces that is 41 pages long with three pieces to a page. The reason I chose this piece is because it makes sense but doesn't at the same time. There is a candle that is burning at the bottom but sprouting a plant after the fire and it is in a small glass dome on top of a chest looking object. I just found it interesting. 

week 13 research

 Dylan Madera

11/26/22

intro to computer arts

research week 13

Sam Bahreini, an artist based in California, describes his unique approach as "Dream Alchemy," aiming to revive the past through sights, sounds, and smells. He merges classical elements with mythology, using digital art, particularly Photoshop, as his chosen medium. Bahreini, previously exploring messy painting and challenging sculpting, found digital art to be the perfect outlet for his imaginative expressions, allowing him to present his visions in a style that breaks from tradition. i find her work very intreresting especially in this work piece. i think this peace is significant so relationships and how sexualized they are in sort of a way. i believe the target audience for this piece is women because the man on the bottom is opening a window to something that he loves . As you may see the heart in this piece signals the mans love for a sexual type of relationship and the woman seems disappointed. her facial expression makes it seem like shes annoyed of it or she is way to used to it.

Week 13 Research

 Peter Mc Lane 

Peter Mc Lane is a Frenchman born in Chamonix in 1945. He initially pursued a passion for music for 25 years. However, after discovering the Painter program, he shifted his focus to digital art. In 1994, he held his first digital art show in Paris. While emphasizing the uniqueness of his technique, Mc Lane acknowledges his respect for traditional painters, especially surrealists like Hieronymus Bosch, Tanguy, Dali, and Max Ernst. He was invited to Tokyo by Fuji for the first digital painting exhibition in Japan in 1995. After this, he did numerous exhibitions worldwide: Dubai, Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, New York, Florence, Brussels, and London. He has over 32 years of experience in digital art. He obtained the title of “Grand Master of Digital Painting at Moca (Museum of Computer Art in New York) in 2010. He currently resides in Vence on the south coast of the Riviera, and he divides his time between virtual art and a love for old cars. He uses the program Painter and a Wacom tablet to create. Mc Lane describes his work as purely a product of his imagination, created on a white screen using a stylus and a Wacom Tablet, simulating the process of a traditional painter. I chose a piece of his called Normandy. I like this piece because it is centered around a painting spreading over the “real world.” We can see an airplane flying and a multitude of other details. 

Peter Mc Lane website: https://www.peter-mclane.com

Week 13 Research Assignment Kyle Dann

 

Clint is a contemporary artist who hand-draws the digital art that he produces. His work has been printed on archival-quality on fine art papers and canvases. Lots of his work that gets produced are known to be "symbolic" and "conceptual". Behind all of Clint's work, there is usually a story behind the drawing or the object means something to him. Clint is very good at using technology and he uses the knowledge that he gained from his studies in the technical and business fields to create art that is both bold and ambitious. He is not worried about being different than everyone else and his artwork is driven by inspiration to create paintings based on his own ideas. What makes his art filled with energy is the way he shows little details to bring more meaning to his pieces. This is the technique that Clint uses to have his audience take a closer look at his work and images. I picked out this image from above because it is very bright. Using a black background makes the bright colors in the flowers pop. Even the blue base or table that the flowers are sitting on pops because it is so much brighter than the background. Just the subtle details of the designs on the table to vase, show that. these objects mean more than what they may appear to be. I like the way that he makes all of the petals on the flowers look the same even with all the little dots on them. All of his images use very bright colors which makes them stand out from the background. 

 Clint's art on the Web

Week 13 Research

 This week, I decided to look at work done by Tom McKeith. As of today's date, he is the artist of the day. The work that was on display was his work titled Flying. This work is really interesting. Similar to all his other forms of work, they all have one common trait: a really easy spot focal point in the center of the work. This one, in particular, is the starting form for most animals that can fly: the egg. It has wings on both sides, and the line art behind it resembles how wind flows, which allows animals to fly or could affect their flying. In the other works, you can see a lot of consistency in the art style with how the lines look and how the focal point really stands out. 

Picture of the Day (Flying)

(Flowers)

Week 13 Research Assignment

For this week’s research assignment I chose the artist Rod Seeley. Seeley was born in Los Angeles, and now lives in Southern California. He is a self taught digital artist who loves to combine unique shapes and colors to create the fractal pieces that he produces. He studied some art while in college, but only started creating digital art pieces in 2010. He uses a customized digital paint technique that looks like oil paint to create his pieces which I find fascinating. It’s amazing tome how one can make digital art look so real as if they did it with real oils and paints! Seeley has his artwork is made to be done on high gloss metal in a metal shadow frame which adds additional dimension to his pieces. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has won several awards as well. I thought these fractal designs were so interesting because they are so extremely bright and high in exposure while having a certain depth to the pieces as well. I also like that some have a little bit of grain texture added in, I love the fractal pieces that have bits of texture. I feel the texture really adds to the fractal and depths of the colors all together. I have linked his website below, His fractal designs are definitely worth taking a look at! 

“Imagine-It-5”

https://www.rodseeleyart.com/home

Week 13 Research Assignment- Kayla Clark

This piece is created by AI this is an algorithmic and mathematical system using programming to look as if a human made it. This is supposed to be the Empire State Building, I think it looks fantastic it isn't an exact copy of what it is but what it can be seen as. Very colorful and vibrant, that's what drew me toward this piece. I thought this was one of the better pieces out of the 20 in this specific exhibit. 

Week 13 Assignment: Research

 For this week I chose the artist Denis Zhbankov who created this piece with Photoshop. They used Photoshop to sketch out and colorize the piece. They also used Photoshop to add lighting to the piece and added a layer of transparency that makes the wind and rain seem real. The piece that Zhbankov made was to examine how nature surrounds us. I also believe they are trying to convey to the viewer that nature is dangerous. I believe this because you can see a centipede crushing the house in the picture. However, Zhbankov is trying to convey that nature is always unpredictable and scary. This can be shown through the centipede being extremely large. As well as the giant serpent or centipede that seems to be in the background that looms over the piece multiple times and is attacking different houses.

The artist's page is here: https://www.artstation.com/deniszhbankov

Week 13 Research Assignment

The digital artist that I decided to research for the 13th week is Sibel Sancar! Sibel is a Turkish computer software programmer (Industrial Engineer) and a painter; she began painting in 1990 and continues her studies in her home studio. She paints with watercolor and acrylic media and is also a digital artist. She has six solo and various group exhibitions and has been working on digital art for over ten years. She joined ARTROM Gallery's "In Peace Project" in 2004 (Rome), the NAFA International Painting Competition in 2004 (Brazil), Upstream People Gallery's 8th Annual Abstraction Art Exhibition in 2006(USA) and IMMAGINE&POESIA as a Turkey Representative in 2009 (Italy). Sibel Sancar has earned multiple awards and placings over the years, such as:

• 2012 Exhibitions Without Walls - OPEN (Digital Art) Best in Competition
• 2013 Exhibitions Without Walls - Your Choice (Digital Art) Best in Competition
• 2012/2013 manhattanarts.com "Featured Artist" Award-Winner
• 2014 Exhibition Without Walls, Impressions Exhibition, Finalist
• 2014 Infinity Art Gallery, Black and White Expo 2014, Honorable Mention
• 2014 Upstream People Gallery, 11th Annual Color Art Exhibition, Special Recognition
• 2015 Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Figurative Art Exhibition, Honorable Mention
• 2016 Exhibition Without Walls, "Structures" Competition, Honorable Mention
• 2016 Exhibition Without Walls, Free For All-2, Exhibition
• 2015-2022 Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery (LST) various exhibitions

Sibel's exhibited works are fractal art and were made with the Mandelbulb 3D program (2022).

Unfortunately, I could not find much else about Sibel Sancar personally, nor could I find any websites that belong to Sibel Sancar. There are only a couple of social media pages that are hers.

WEEK 13 Research - Reagan Franzoni

The artist I chose for week 13 from the Behance website is Mateusz Kozlowski. He is a digital artist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands that works with 3D art, Motion Designs of Animation and Interactive Art. He has experience with Computer-generated Imagery working with animation and visual effects at studios in Poland, Hong Kong, Germany, Australia, UK, and Netherlands. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Intermedia Art and a Master’s Degree in Art Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in Poland. He bases his work off of challenges he encounters and crazy ideas that he imagines. The software that Mateusz Kozlowski uses is SideFX in Houdini, Vellum Solvers, and POP sims. He also uses Nuke and After Effects to produce final images.

The image that I chose from Mateusz Kozlowski’s work is from his Rock Collisions collection called “Rock paper scissors” and it is an image and animation of colliding rocks and water particles intertwined with lines of colors that appear to be the image of scissors. I love his use of abstract colorful lines and the aesthetic of the clear water droplets that make the piece simple and modern but in a way that it stands out. Mateusz explained that he was trying to challenge himself with this abstract piece to create a story with the art of collision and physics. The design is based on randomness, but was inspired by the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game. He created this series of 3D illustrations using SideFX Houdini as the main source, and Vellum Solvers and DOPs to create the color lines and water particles. He used Redshift, After Effects and Nuke to produce the final image of these designs. 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/184314489/Rock-paper-scissors

https://omatko.net/