This book is about art, written from an artist's point of view. It also is about computers, written from the perspective of a painter who uses them.
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This book is about art, written from an artist's point of view. It also is about computers, written from the perspective of a painter who uses them.
Painting the Digital River is James Faure Walker's personal odyssey from the traditional art scene to fresh horizons, from hand to digital painting--and sometimes back again. It is a literate and witty attempt to make sense of the introduction of computer tools into the creation of art, to understand the issues and the fuss, to appreciate the people involved and the work they produce, to know the promise of the new media, as well as the risks.

Following his own winding path, Faure Walker tells of learning to paint with the computer, of misunderstandings across the art and science divide, of software limitations, of conversations between the mainstream and digital art worlds, of emerging genres of digital painting, of the medieval digital, of a different role for drawing. As a painter and computer enthusiast, the author recognizes the marvels of digital paint as well as anyone. But he also challenges the assumption that digital somehow means different.

The questions he raises matter to artists of every background, style, and disposition, and the answers should reward anyone seeking insight into contemporary art. «