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 re􀃩exive process in which the pans are used—􀃨rst in digital and then in watercolour painting—to reveal the a􀃧ordances that the two di􀃧erent mediums o􀃧er in our increasingly digital world. Through the process, I have identi􀃨ed a paradox. While watercolour may appear open and 􀃩uid and the digital paintings seem to have a se..

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