What is Digital Art?...

Digital art is art created by computer. These images can be viewed on screen, projected or printed out. The computer does not create art for you, however, just like giving someone brushes and paints, does not make them an artist. The computer has an incredible range of possibilities for the creation of images, but not something you would necessarily want to put on your wall! It takes the eye of an artist to make the choices necessary to find something pleasing on the eye.

There is a good range of software available for computer art. Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw and Painter to name a few popular ones. I particularly like creating abstract designs with fractal software. The main one I use is 'Apophysis' which is a fractal flame software. It has an amazing range of possibilities and tools, with which I am in total control of all the elements, colour schemes and output resolution. I usually always use a combination of all this software to create the finished product.

Getting the 'art' from the computer involves printing in one form or another, also art can be displayed on the computer, as in the case of screen savers or backgrounds, or projected. What I like to do, however, is to render at incredibly high resolution and print in fine detail. Printing on canvas gives a very nice quality product which can enhance your living or workspace. I use the giclee printing process, which uses permanent archival inks for longevity. They also display very strong colours.

Since my work is abstract, it is suited to many types of interior and I can cater for any colour scheme and print to any size, shape and on different materials, such as waterproof for bathrooms or outside installations.

*Digital in fact means something created with digits - individual separate components (or to be more technically accurate, 'discrete (discontinuous) values', rather than a continuous range of values). On a computer screen that means pixels (hence my alias 'pixelpainter'). A 'pixel' is a small picture element, one of many that builds up the image like a mosaic. An example of digital could be like Morse code, a series of dots and dashes or bleeps, whereas an example of continuous analogue data (non-digital) could be like the hands of a clock sweeping round continuously.