THE MAKING OF THE KREMER PIGMENTE SERIES: RISK AND THE PARADOX OF DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE PAINTING

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..