2018 Finger Paintings!

[Chad Weatherford]

A couple more from October.

[Chad Weatherford]

Old smudge exercise. I was doing this quite a bit a few years ago....using ArtRage to smudge a photo with the palette knife and use the result to create something new.

[Chad Weatherford]

A couple space themed images that went between Photoshop and the ArtRage app.

[Chad Weatherford]

Some more sketches around Vancouver. The pillars were observed at Cathedral Place. That study was tough to deal with the perspective as well as the subtle hue shifts. Texture on the image edges of that study was added with Photoshop later.

[D Akey]

That's a pretty nifty trick with the smear as a reference. It's like making a blueprint. Is it something you like doing still? I'm guessing that one of the challenges is to find a good model to work from (in the case of space ships and stuff). I would think you can pretty much go to the stylization once you've done it a few times and with some mileage doing it you can translate it in your head just by looking. Believe it or not, that was a question, heh. Did you find that to be the case? I imagine it would be a good way to find a new style though. Pushing the model to find something new rather than just pushing the painting. Great idea.

[Chad Weatherford]

That's a pretty nifty trick with the smear as a reference. It's like making a blueprint. Is it something you like doing still? I'm guessing that one of the challenges is to find a good model to work from (in the case of space ships and stuff). I would think you can pretty much go to the stylization once you've done it a few times and with some mileage doing it you can translate it in your head just by looking. Believe it or not, that was a question, heh. Did you find that to be the case? I imagine it would be a good way to find a new style though. Pushing the model to find something new rather than just pushing the painting. Great idea.

Nah, I used to do this exercise a lot, but haven’t in quite a while. It was sort of a way to work where I didn’t really expect anything but generating abstract chaos I could use as inspiration to springboard ideas. The key for me is it wouldn’t be something I would necessarily come up with if I went about a design in a more linear fashion, so it became a more reactive process of discovery...almost like finding shapes in the clouds. In addition, I would get a lot of building blocks for free like value and a base color for instance. It was pretty fun, but most of the experiments wouldn’t go very far, especially if my decisions to make sense of the chaos destroyed the inherent abstraction I was attracted to in the first place.

That said, smearing industrial objects has proven a good way to come up with spaceships and robots for sure.

[Chad Weatherford]

Back to the southwest...

[pai]

Love that little girl with that white fur hoodie, she's so sweet. The bird man is very cool with that color contrast you selected. And your last few southwest mountains, love the view/perspective you have painted it out. I can feel I am standing there and look at them. Thanks so much for sharing your works

[Chad Weatherford]

Thank you so much, Pai. I’m very happy you like them.

[Chad Weatherford]

More from Arizona...the man is my dad, who is still addicted to the cube, and his dog who recently passed away. All are ArtRage except nov 11, which was actually started in Photoshop and finished with the mobile version of AR from a small image I came across in a google search.