Journal article
THE MAKING OF THE KREMER PIGMENTE SERIES: RISK AND THE PARADOX OF DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE PAINTING
Barbara Bolt
MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture | Goldsmith Publishing | Published : 2019
Abstract
This visual essay is concerned with risks and paradoxes in analogue and digital painting, testing the mediums of watercolour and the digital painting program, Brushes Redux. I began the process with the acquisition of fourteen watercolour pans of pigment at the Kremer Pigmente shop in Munich and then rendered them as digital and watercolour paintings. Here, I trace a reexive process in which the pans are used—rst in digital and then in watercolour painting—to reveal the aordances that the two dierent mediums oer in our increasingly digital world. Through the process, I have identied a paradox. While watercolour may appear open and uid and the digital paintings seem to have a se..
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