John C. Deitz
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Each medium has its characteristic voice or appearance. Oil looks like oil, watercolor like watercolor, pastel like pastel. Each does something particular unto itself. I rejoice in exploring the individual voice of each medium and how it relates to a full orchestration.
My work explores the central voice of each medium. Use of ray-trace programs such as Pov-Ray finds me turning to surrealism while
landscapes are expressed with watercolor crayon.
Finger-painting with the IPAD seems to have a inherent proclivity for abstraction. Whenever I touch the screen a line appears under my finger, reminiscent of cave painting or drawing in sand.
For the past six years or so I have been painting and drawing with watercolor crayon, a versatile medium that can alternately be made to appear like conventional dry pastel, to watercolor, and oil paint depending on technique. Yet, a little of the voice of this instrument shows through.
I am amazed at the range of art expression in the earliest examples of art to be found in caves and carved into rock. Actually there is a large amount of abstraction in addition to the beautiful representative images of animals. Yet the images of people in this art is surreal! Of even greater surprise is the range of media employed. Pigment is blown onto the surface by mouth (spray paint), milk (think casein), egg yolk (tempera), water (watercolor), animal fat (oil). Everything was tried, right from the start. Of course they lacked the sophisticated modern methods. Or did they? Anyway, they did it all, except photography and computer art. Why should we not explore and celebrate every way there is of producing art? We are lucky to live in an age of so much choice.
Capturing the time and emotion of a place there is always room left for the
viewer.
[email protected]
Each medium has its characteristic voice or appearance. Oil looks like oil, watercolor like watercolor, pastel like pastel. Each does something particular unto itself. I rejoice in exploring the individual voice of each medium and how it relates to a full orchestration.
My work explores the central voice of each medium. Use of ray-trace programs such as Pov-Ray finds me turning to surrealism while
landscapes are expressed with watercolor crayon.
Finger-painting with the IPAD seems to have a inherent proclivity for abstraction. Whenever I touch the screen a line appears under my finger, reminiscent of cave painting or drawing in sand.
For the past six years or so I have been painting and drawing with watercolor crayon, a versatile medium that can alternately be made to appear like conventional dry pastel, to watercolor, and oil paint depending on technique. Yet, a little of the voice of this instrument shows through.
I am amazed at the range of art expression in the earliest examples of art to be found in caves and carved into rock. Actually there is a large amount of abstraction in addition to the beautiful representative images of animals. Yet the images of people in this art is surreal! Of even greater surprise is the range of media employed. Pigment is blown onto the surface by mouth (spray paint), milk (think casein), egg yolk (tempera), water (watercolor), animal fat (oil). Everything was tried, right from the start. Of course they lacked the sophisticated modern methods. Or did they? Anyway, they did it all, except photography and computer art. Why should we not explore and celebrate every way there is of producing art? We are lucky to live in an age of so much choice.
Capturing the time and emotion of a place there is always room left for the
viewer.
