Emergence painting demo on Paintboxtv this November 19th

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Portland Fish Market

San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Sutton and long-time Painter instructor has been using Emergence lately (see the above image). Jeremy has asked if I’d demo the brushes for his PaintboxTV members.

I will be demonstrating my Emergence brushes on Jeremy’s PainterLab, a feature of his Paintboxtv website. PainterLab is an informal monthly virtual Q & A session, open to all current PaintboxTV Premium Members, where you can get help with your technical and artistic questions, feedback and advice on projects, learn more about Painter and pick up useful tips and techniques. You need to be a current member at the time of the PainterLab – it is included in a PaintboxTV Premium Member subscription.

If you are not a Paintbox TV subscriber, don’t worry. I will be creating an instructional video that essentially covers the same content. I’ll be posting it after the November 19th PainterLab demo.

Interesting new creativity series: Artistic Journeys

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Artistic Journeys: John Derry

Writer and artist L.A. James has created Artistic Journeys: Insights from Digital Artists Around the World, a unique series of interviews with a range of digital artists, exploring their backgrounds and what makes them tick. The series will cover an artist a month through August 2020. I am honored to be the subject of this month’s interview. You can read the interview here.

New Artwork Using Emergence

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West Bottoms, kansas city

Ever since releasing Emergence, I’ve been working on how to best employ it in my own art. Emergence brushes are designed to create a complex texture within each stroke. As a result, this complexity needs to be contrasted against simple shapes and line-work.

I have a long history of taking photographs of architectural elements utilizing a flat orthogonal point of view. Using such a photo as a starting point, I have been able to break the composition down into its simplified parts and fill the separate areas with Emergence brushwork. The idea is to create a balance between the source photo and its painted representation.

Original Photo

An interesting byproduct of this balance is an internal compositional flexibility making it easy to crop the image into further related compositions similar to a fractal.

West Bottoms Detail

west bottoms detail

I’m going to be printing the full image at a scale that enables the textural complexity to compete with the simplified shapes and lines.