Digital Art Show

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Chris Von Steiner at CUC | Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.

You still have time to see this excellent exhibition of digital paintings by Chris Von Steiner. It shares the large 3rd floor gallery with Laurie Lipton’s “Extraordinary Drawings” so you get to see two great shows in one visit.

I’m amazed that Chris creates these using just the computer mouse – not the stylus and tablet that most digital artists prefer. He tends to create series of paintings which perhaps tell a story – The Snow King being a good example is reminiscent of Narnia and are my favourites. Others include familiar pop imagery and icons in bold colours, some mildly gruesome or fetishistic scenes – some very colourful dreams (or nightmares) are portrayed. Lovely.

Homotopia: Chris Von Steiner
4 November 2009 – 7 January 2010
at Contemporary Urban Centre
This exhibition showcases the work of digital French artist Chris Von Steiner whose work combines the pop icons of his youth with bold colours,elements from movies, music, books and television. He draws on dreams and desires to create digital nightmares.

“I’m a digital artist. No brush, no paint, no pen. With my mouse, my computer and a little help from Adobe Illustrator(c), I tell strange stories and freaky tales, where people can lose themselves like I lose myself. Sitting alone at dark in front of my computer, drawing, sampling, looping and editing what’s in the tortured brain of the sick teenager I was and will always remain.

Like a popstar whose striking good songs touch your heart and haunt your mind, I want to share my wildest dreams and my deepest fears. No rule, no key or theory to understand/explain my work. What You See Is What You Get: emotion.”

A digital artist from France, Von Steiner combines the pop icons of his youth with bold colours, elements from movies, music, books, or television, using his fantasies, dreams and desires to create digital nightmares of teenage fancies and bizarre fetishes tales.

His digital paintings have been shown through Europe and USA and is a regular exhibitor with Strychnin Gallery in London, Berlin and New York. He has participated in group shows alongside artists such as Banksy, Tracey Emin, Blek le Rat and Sam Taylor Wood.

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Clémentine Derodit’s et toque! is a new French-language cookbook aimed at children aged 5-8. Derodit wrote and illustrated the book, creating charming character art to make an incredibly appealing book that’s also very fun to read (I’m assured by someone who reads French). Digital Arts sat down with her to find out more.

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Digital Arts has teamed up with leading custom printers Awesome Merchandise to offer you a fantastic opportunity to have your art screen-printed onto T-shirts, which you can sell or use to promote yourself (or give as gifts to stylish friends).

Submit a three-colour design on a white or transparent background and you’ll be entered for judging. The best designs, as selected by teams from Digital Arts and Awesome Merchandise, will be rewarded by having their T-shirts printed by Awesome Merchandise.

First prize is 75 T-shirts featuring the winning design — plus a year’s subscription to Digital Arts. Five second prizes each include five T-shirts with your artwork (plus a year’s subscription). Winners will also see their work shown off in a future issue of Digital Arts and
on the website.

Full details via the link above.

Art review: ‘Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings’ at Cal State Long Beach | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times.

The biggest surprise of Brian Eno’s light-and-sound installation is its modesty, both in terms of size and ambition. In other words, “Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings” is a small show.

Despite the playful overstatement of its title, the mellow exhibition requires very little of visitors and repays their attentiveness with a perfectly pleasant (and perfectly ordinary) experience of tasteful relaxation….

The Book of Inspiration

Over 190 pages of the world’s foremost digital art, design and illustration

The Book of Inspiration is a new luxury volume from the makers of Computer Arts magazine, featuring 192 pages of the world’s very best digital art, design and illustration.

It comes with a die-cut, foil-blocked and embossed cover, and features works from the likes of James Jean, Non-Format, Neville Brody, Airside, Hort, Vault49, Serial Cut, Jasper Goodall, Deanne Cheuk and many more.

As well as a huge showcase section of up and coming talent, it features interviews with the likes of Justin Maller, Trevor Jackson, Marian Bantjes and Jonathan Barnbrook – all displayed on in sumptuous art stock paper.

It’s on sale now for £14.99, and available at WH Smiths, Borders, Barnes & Noble and other good stockists.

Buy it now

via Computer Arts – The Book of Inspiration.

Some lovely 3D artworks on Balazs Papay’s website

http://www.bgx.hu/index.htm

Book Review: Digital Art Masters Volume 4 | Parka Blogs.

Excellent review…

Digital Art Masters is a series of art books that feature the workflow of digital artists, both 3D modelers and painters. Having this book in hand is no different from looking over their shoulders while they work. It’s a great opportunity to learn from the top artists (full list below) in the art industry.

In the fourth volume, we get to see new artists as well as returning artists with their new projects. If you’re a frequent visitor to 3DTotal or CGSociety, you have probably seen their work. This book has 50 artists providing valuable insight into how they work, be it matte painting with Photoshop, 3D modeling with Maya or even digital sculpting with Zbrush.

All the illustrations featured have their workflow explained concisely, from conception, execution to post production. Included are multiple screenshots of their work in progress. Note, however, that this is not a step-by-step tutorial book that tells you which button to click on screen….

REVIEW: Comic Life 1.5 – Digital Arts.

Of all the free applications that have shipped with the Mac, Comic Life is the one we’ve used least. And that’s not because we don’t make comics – we do. We just preferred Photoshop when we needed to create comic strips, dismissing Comic Life as a childish toy. Taking a fresh look as the application upgrades to 1.5, we think that’s a great disservice to a fine program.

Full details at Digital Arts Online

via Newsvine – Digital images of all Rembrandt’s work on show.

I’d like to see this…

The life work of Rembrandt — all 317 known paintings, 285 etchings and more than 100 drawings — go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist’s studio rather than as they exist today.

In some ways, the high resolution images are more authentic than the real paintings, said Ernst van de Wetering, a leading Rembrandt scholar who supervised the project.

Employing computer wizardry, pieces of canvas or panel that were sliced off centuries ago have been patched back on. Colors are restored to the vibrancy they had when they came off the master’s brush. Details hidden in darkness because of aging pigments emerge into view.

“The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size” exhibition opens Sunday in the former Amsterdam Stock Exchange building and runs through Sept. 7.