Research: Read and study

– studying digital art (Images Under Control: Asethetics of digital culture)
– postmodernism (need to read more on this)
– advertising verses art (previously I’ve researched Ed Ruscha)
– Find more fine artists who are doing digital painting
– look into neon in art (Bruce Nauman)

Technical
– new iPad with pencil! – digital painting in Procreate
– Can I get the same effects of oil paint, watercolor, etc with the iPad?
– more experimenting in Photoshop, Illustrator, Video Editing
– Where is the line between Photography & Painting?
– What physical painting can I do at home? Or in studio days?

Presentation
– How do you successfully present physical work in a digital space? How do you get feedback? What is the viewer’s ideal experience?
– How should you present digital artwork? Online? VR? Or printed out and made physical?
– What is the size of a digital artwork?
– Should they be Photoshopped into a virtual gallery space? Or just viewed flat as .jpgs? How does the viewer experience them? On a computer, phone, TV?

Things I’ve been Exploring (pre-COVID) – Content of the Work
– Neon (quality of light and signs)
– Light (How to capture light in paint?)
– Signage, Advertising – Text on paintings (ie. Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger)

– Films – taking stills from old movies as reference and inspiration
– Urban Space (mostly at night). How do you capture the atmosphere/energy or a city?
– What makes something a ‘painting’? Verses a photo or just a mess.
– Scale (I made some giant paintings.)