Digital Painting

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Check this out. I think this is what you are talking about.

Bill Tomsa
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Who gets to decide what is art and what isn't? I leave it up to my buyers, and they don't seem to mind that my work is digital.

Bill its a very interesting forum. I gave it a star.
thanks

April; thanks for reply.
You dont think that digital art is less sold than other art. I feel that buyer make distance with digital work
I speak in general and dont means my work.

Ok, here's the TRUTH! Any "artist" that claims that another medium is not art, is either severely threatened by something different, very insecure in their own work, or have overblown egos and put others down to try to boost themselves up. Pick one of those. Which is it? People have a strange way of putting down anything that does not fit in to their tiny mind bubble.

I sell my work in a gallery that also sells traditional art. In the last two months, I'm the only gallery member who has sold artwork off the wall, and I've done it consistently. It's marked at the same price as some comparably sized traditional pieces. More than some, in fact. No, buyers do not care that it is digital, and yes, it is labeled as such.

*applause for Kevin*

I make a full time living selling my work. It's digital, it takes skill and knowledge and time and care, and I'm proud of it. There is a lot of quickie, low effort, low quality digital art out there, but that can be said of ANY media.

Good art is good art, whether you make it with crayons, yarn, oil paint or owl pellets.

Kevin, I think our gentle talented classical painter are proud of their painting. And they have right .Its a very pleased time to draw that way i know. And history is talking just about classical painter.
But i hope digital also become as "classical" in the mind of artists and buyers. I dont like here to increase more the distance between all meduims.The future wil help to reduice that.

Kevin hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. One person's art may not be appreciated by another. So what. If a human-created item/activity makes you "feel" an emotion then it's art in my book. Digital art is no different from any other medium,even Piero Manzoni's 1961 Merda d'Artista (except when it "exploded" in Randers, but even that could be said to be performance art) :D

- Richard Reeve
reevephotos.com

define fake.

i've seen elephants finger paint - would that be fake or real?

i've seen a guy toss paint and glass on a canvas and he's considered a pioneer, as if he did something amazing.

compared to those that paint for real, those guys are fakes. digital depending on what you do, takes the same amount of talent. you don't need paint, but you do need practice. and there is a variety of ways to present it. mostly i think every field has people who think that the "easier" way is the fake way.

sculptures doing it digitally instead of a hammer and chisel. or i did stained glass, and a glass grinder was considered cheating, which it wasn't, because it made it easier to foil the glass. the list goes on.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

In FAA contests sometimes increase this difference. Painting only. Or please digital painting only. Even sometimes i have the same subject but i cant submit it. I feel so unhappy

There is snobbery even within traditional art. Oil paintings are still considered by many to be the epitome of traditional mediums, acrylics still considered by some to be a poor plastic substitute to oils and watercolours generally fetch lower prices than a same size oil - bizarre really considering watercolours are challenging to use properly and oil paints are the most forgiving medium.

I have found the people with the biggest 'grudge' against digital art are traditional artists, not the general public. The reality is that good art sells, irrespective of the medium. I've sold more prints and products featuring my digital work than my traditional paintings...but that is probably skweded by the fact that I can churn out more digital than traditional work so have more of them for sale.

there are lots of contests, you can ignore the ones that feel they need to be in a class of their own.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com