Jim Boyd Studio for Equine Arts

The bottom line - It is neither - and it is both. First, WHAT IT IS NOT:

 

• It is not a painted over photograph or a photo with brush strokes added

• It is not a painting because no paint is involved in its creation - the final piece is an original monoprint in archival inks on archival paper (museum quality).

• It is not painted by computer program - I do the brushstrokes, drawing, element placement, and perspective

 

WHAT IT IS:

 

• A progressive approach to art that was started by some of the old masters. The hyper-realists, such as Vermeer, Caravaggio, da Vinci, and Warhol used the technology of the day to assist their artistic endeavors. (Technology does not create art - only an artist can do that). These men used special mirrors and lenses (camera lucida or the camera obscura) to help give them a realism to their art that could have been obtained in no other way.

• Where they used lenses and mirrors I apply the same concept in the modern digital world.

• Click here for an interview by David Rose with artist David Hockney on how the old masters did this.

 

So I guess you could say that it is the creation of fine art using painting techniques in a digital medium.