(1.) Digital Painting

This "painting" was created using Paintbrush, a program for Macs similar to MS Paint on Windows. It's nostalgic in a way because it is such a basic program but I remember using it when I was in grade school as a way of drawing and experimenting. While the aesthetic is very different from what I would like out of a painting, the process was still layering, playing with textures of brushes (kind of) and densities of color. The only frustrating part was that MS Paint lacks any possibility for transparency and playing with opacity so layers only become covered, and cannot be viewed.

(1.) Digital Drawing

I used the program Pixelmator (a poor man's Photoshop?) to create the drawing. In the process, I thought about the process of my own drawing and how I might be able to translate it digitally. It was difficult to get the energy of charcoal, or the ghost images created by an eraser, but I found similar techniques through the use of white and black; I did not erase any marks but instead "drew" over them using different tones. I did not use a tablet so mark making felt more unnatural but created different effects and marks than I think if I had one.