La Bicicleta Artwork

I started my artistic life as a painter in the early eighties. My life has evolved since in intricate ways related to in stained glass design, fine arts photography, music and mathematics. Lately I rediscovered painting following a very personal technique, involving the act of pure contingency. As a painter, I recall the intense anxiety felt when facing a blank canvas: the fear of failure, to start wisely and the impossibility to preview the final result. The emotion of creation, a dense probability mist that one can not explain until we take the risk of first choices. Contingency is what separates this endeavor from the frigid instantaneous click of the camera. True performance starts when we apply the first "brush strokes" to the original photo and execute a plethora of sophisticated digital techniques to guide my steps to paths never wondered. The process starts with the camera capture, but to describe the next phase as "photo editing" with Photoshop is a misnomer. As the matter of fact the case is that the real creative process or "painting" starts with Photoshop -------------------- Birth place: Caracas, Venezuela. 10-Oct-1950 Painter (http://www.artrbd.com/paint/index.html), Photographer, Stained glass designer (http://www.artrbd.com/vsg/index.html) Other Interests: Philosophy, Literature, music. Websites: ART RBD: www.artrbd.com http://www.artrbd.com/PORTFOLIO/portfolio.html http://www.artrbd.com/PORTFOLIO/painting.html DIGITALIA: http://digitalia.zoomblog.com PHOTOGRAPHYA: http://rmenlacedigital.blogspot.com