road to ruin, road to redemption Print

Another work in the digital landscape series. Similarly to the last work I added to Saatchi, this one started as a biro drawing, and then I painted over using the open source digital painting program Krita. The subject matter is once again, the spectacular everyday Andalusian scenery. This foto taken from the drivers seat out through the windscreen on the road that connects Alcalá la Real with the A44 motorway passing by Benalua de las Villas. It was an overcast day, and the distant parts of the scene were almost lost to view. Now I think about it, this was the first one of these. I specifically thought that I would try and fix this aspect of the drawing digitally. The distant areas of the drawing, had become too dense. This is one of the pitfalls of working in biro. My ability to draw without error is non existent, so I tend to like mediums that allow for erasure repair and modification. Biro is the opposite of course, but it also takes plenty of time before it builds up too much strength, so one can make repairs and leave a sort of pentimenti (look up correct spelling of that term). This is what I had been doing in these drawings. But in this case I was very unhappy with the lack of fading off into the distance that I had achieved here, and decided to try and make digital repairs. You can see this whole process play out in the timelapse video associated with this work. After spending some time, trying to modify this aspect of the drawing, while leaving the drawing as, apparently, a biro drawing, I started using only the colour of the biro, and making a painted effect. Liking the results, I continued along this line. So, this is actually the first of these digitally painted modified biro drawings, although looking on the timelapse vdeo description, it seems to indicate that it is not the first, but rather, mentions it being the last. I am not sure, a year has passed. Which in my life is rather like a lifetime. Timelapse video, https://youtu.be/UxXwHTMbzMI As usual the digital painting program is Krita. https://krita.org Timelapse created in Blender. https://blender.org with screenshots captured with AutoScreenCapture https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoscreen/ All open source programs, free to download and to use, free of commercial restriction on use. Ask me more if you want to. Video description. 35989 screenshots, at taken at the rate of one every five seconds. Thus twelve per minute. 35989/12 is 2999 minutes, or, as I am sure you will concede, 3000 minutes. That's 50 hours, a nice round figure. I dread to calculate over how many days. Far too many. In tiny sessions between all the other things going on. That needs to change, and yet I am taking on more 'other things' even as we speak. This work and the other from the last video will soon be available as fine large prints in my online shop. This may well be the last of these that reworks a previous drawing, I think they are actually more work than starting from scratch. Although it does add the colour palate. Music is Ride of the Valkyries, composed by Richard Wagner, and Danse Macabre by Kevin Macleod Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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