I’ve been painting more of the hard edge watercolor pen plots and finally got around to editing some video. The video below goes through the process and talks about how the paintings are made. Enjoy! DanHi, I’m Dan. existentialfri.wpengine.com
A couple of months ago I accidentally created an effect with some curves and color in p5.js. I really liked the effect so I decided to begin plotting and painting the curves. Note: You can check out this video if you want to see the process in action. The images below show a couple of […]
Another hard edge abstract painting video is up on YouTube. I started painting using small pieces of pine for simple abstracts. Eventually I moved to Birch plywood because it’s less sappy and the results are much cleaner. Check out the video below to see what that process looks like. Note that this is a video […]
I spend a lot of time visualizing what I want. What does my future self look like? What is the reality I want to create? Knowing those things, what would I be doing today. I kept coming back to one realization. I want to larger. When I started painting I was painting on small 5.5″ […]
Okay, it’s time. For the the past year I’ve had the goal of beginning to share painting videos. Part one was recording myself painting and that was pretty simple. The harder part came when I had to organize numerous clips into something coherent. The video below shows the process for painting a hard edge abstract […]
I like using Generative art to iterate quickly. I don’t always know how colors and shapes will look together and through the use of randomness with a predefined palette I can quickly see how colors and themes feel. Changing out colors is as simple as refreshing the random number generator and that allows us to […]
One of the things I’ve noticed about creative endeavors is that you never know where an idea will lead you. All you can do is take a first step in one direction and then something else becomes clear. From there another step becomes clear and you keep moving. In my experience, there’s no way to […]