Happy Little Zeros and Ones
by George Pennington
Title
Happy Little Zeros and Ones
Artist
George Pennington
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
An abstract happy little digital oil painting.
It was one of those life changing events that we can miss if we aren’t paying attention. A couple of days of classes on (www.creativelive.com) demonstrating various features and tools including Adobe software applications. At the time, around ten years ago as I recall, content-aware was not yet, well…not yet. Cloning was a tool and so was the History Brush tool. My classes were all picked out. Advanced retouching, masking, using gradients and the like. A busy few days, but there was a gap. Between “Fonts for Beginners” and “Making Brushes” there was an unfilled hour or so. I decided to pass the time with “Painting with Adobe Photoshop.” As with typing class in high school, the odds of my using these skills were somewhere between slim and none. “I’ll never do a lot of typing.”
My interest in Photoshop derives from my passion for photography. Having made photographs with film and prints in darkrooms, my gradual adoption of digital photography began in 1998 with an Olympus D-600L one megapixel camera that took about a half-an-hour to write an image to disk. I was used to shooting a Canon F1 with a motor drive at the time. Can you hear it? “Chga, chga, chga.” Over time I missed the darkroom less and less as the hardware and software tools brought digital imaging to and eventually beyond the quality of my old kodachromes. Photoshop brought my ability to edit photography to a whole new level. But painting? What does photoshop have to do with painting? Working with paint is messier than working in darkrooms.
This “fill” class about painting with Adobe photoshop introduced me to Jack “Wow” Davis. An Adobe Photoshop Hall of Famer and best selling author, Jack Davis has some classroom time logged as an instructor and delivers in easy to follow terms with a wonderful sense of humor. Textures, pattern fill, opacity, paint layers. Blocking, traditional paint file naming, blend modes. Digital technique, same as analogue, might all be the stuff of Houdini, but once you see it… To make a long story short, you don’t need a Wacom tablet to paint with Photoshop but you really do need a Wacom tablet to paint with Photoshop. I know. I paint with Photoshop every day.
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March 6th, 2020
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