RE: Back from the Abyss, something about Digital Art
This is so interesting, as I now do much of my work digitally, but coming from oils and printmaking, I often find I simply work in the same way, with a palette to mix my 'oils' even overpainting with transluscent whites in between 'drying' layers.
I love it though and hope, in the growing digital world, that it can still be viewed as art. It's still meant to evoke contemplation in the viewer, but I do love the look of the brush stroke. But, who can say, it may morph and develop.
The best bit of digital art is that I can have an endless supply of iterations of one of my digital paintings and change and add to it ad infinitum. This idea and the very idea of digital ownership as well as digital viewing and experiencing of art is vastly changing the art world.
Not since the mid Victorian times with Photography has the art world had such a change, that is starting small, but will rush in and force a new perspective on making, viewing, and owing art. It's a fun time to be an artist!
...if you are missing the smell of your paint...I guess there could be found a solution to this.
Well I still keep a traditional studio and I can easily go out and play about and get the smell of my paint. When I am painting digitally sometimes it's as if my sense memory almost fills my nostirls with the smell of terps and I have been known to brush my hand on my drawing tablet forgetting it isn't a real piece of paper.
The physical and the digital are beginning to merge and I'm loving it.