Brigam’s Digital Sketchbook

  For my piece I was inspired by Gabrielle Münter’s ‘Jawlensky & Werefkin’. Blending Impressionism and simplified contours with minimal individuality to create a dreamscape that blends reality and art in multiple different ways. I blended 3 images together on photoshop to create the setting, and added 1 of my own but decided to cover it in procreate with the oil paint brush setting. I wanted my piece to feel like a dream, blurred faces and the impressions of things that make sense but seem almost surreal. At first I wanted to focus on image overload, but as I kept working in my piece I decided I wanted to make something that blended both detailed images and simple impressions. I wanted to disrupt the perfect photographs with painting. I thought this was the perfect way to incorporate intense colours and pay homage to the original art work that I based it off of. My idea was to have Jawlensky and Werefkin having a fun beach day, adding backstory and even more personality to the ...

For my different versions of my digital painting I played with colour grading and different filters to make my image seem more like a coherent painting. While I really enjoy these versions, I felt the filters did too good of a job at making my piece look like a real, not exaggerated painting/collage. My painting is made up of 4 images i found on the interned with one of my own that i used procreate to convert into a more stylized painted version. As said in a prior post I was inspired by Gabrielle Münter’s ‘Jawlensky & Werefkin’. Blending Impressionism and simplified contours with minimal individuality to create a dreamscape that blends reality and art in multiple different ways.  

  Gabrielle  Münter ,  Jawlensky  & Werefkin , 1909. Oil on cardboard  This painting we learned about in art history is heavily inspiring my digital painting. I love the texture and all of the color. 

  Here are a few images I'm thinking of pulling inspiration from. I like the almost sci-fi feel of them, they feel very abstract and dream like to me. I'm hoping to mimic what dreams feel like and how strange and abnormal hey can be. I'm hoping to focus on Image overload: Crowded and dense composition. The type of dream scape you would conjure up in a feverish state. Scary. silly, Bright, and random.  I hope to inspire curiosity and a little bit of discomfort. Familiarity but you can't exactly tell from where. 

  Getting ready to bind the finished physical photo books in class