Sunday, June 8, 2008

That's all.......

My finished work, although not originally what i had scripted works quite well. It took a lot of time, and even though it is not as nicely done as i would like, there is limited time for this project and i have so many other things to do! I will definitely go back to it one day and change it a bit, maybe make another ending, add some music if i find anything appropriate.
I want people to notice nature, not just dismiss it as background imagery. Because it hasn't been purposefully placed there as man-made objects are, people seem to take less notice of it. As i mentioned before, a lot of paintings depict the man made elements with startling accuracy and attention to detail whereas the grass and trees are just treated like a texture and applied without much thought.
When i visited the John Leech Gallery in May I found a classic example of this in Michael Hight's work which is said to be depicted with 'photo-realistic precision'.





Kerepehi

2008
oil on linen
1350 x 3000 mm

I do think his work is quite good but think it is quite silly to call it photo-realistic when the grass is just a few quick brush strokes and the ground too is obviously not painted with much care.
Through my work i wanted to get people to take more notice of nature, and see how beautiful it can be. I hope this is what people interpret from my work.

I chose to use the computer as my medium for drawing because i think this is the closest to being manufactured and man-made. There are no hard-copies of the frames i have drawn, they have only existed on the computer. The act of drawing them on the wacom tablet was just like drawing with a pen in the sense that it involved had movements, and the pen is pressure sensitive just like an analog pen :)
I wanted to comment on how we overlook nature so thought a digital medium would be the best tool to use.

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