Cheese city

I have been mixing two digital media. Last week I was able to use a Bamboo Fun tablet. The tablet is the perfect tool to fix pictures but it is also one of the best tools to paint digital drawings. There are several software programs that will work with the tablet. Some are more sophisticated and professional than others; but if you just want to have fun and spend sometime doing relaxing creating a fantasy world, any drawing software will work. For the paintings below ArtRage was used.



This painting was done by Isabella and I. We were discussing if the moon was really made out of cheese. She told me that there are space mice that take big chunks of cheese every night while we sleep. She also told me that in some nights she has seen them. We, then decided to draw a picture of a city with the cheese moon. We called our city "cheese city"; the city line looks kind of crooked because, we believed the cheese was one of those strong smelly french cheeses that we love so much. By the way, we weren't able to paint the space mice because Isabella didn't want to tell how they look. I believe she wants to keep them totally secret, so they can eat their cheese in peace. Anyway, I would let you know a secret, every night when she's sleeping I look out my window to see if I can get to see and join them to have some of that delicious treat.

The orchids is a drawing done on a gift given to my wife in her birthday by our good friends Mariana, Mini and Oscar while here during their visit. Surprisingly, the orchid is doing pretty well in spite of the heater and the lack of fresh air.

Drawing, painting and watercoloring

One of the advantages of the digital age is that the computer recreates the real World. The computer is a machine that emulates other machines and activities that we as humans have developed through our years of being.




Few years back, the darkroom was necessary to process our photographs; nowadays, the computer replaces the darkroom and all the processing is done digital. The same can be said about painting.

The image above was done using ArtRage and Photoshop; the idea was to emulate watercoloring. It is a very simple landscape that can be done in few minutes without having to worry about coloring our clothing. Can the digital experience replace the actual experience of drawing and painting in a real canvas? Probably not; however, still represents a proposition of mental health, if one can spend few minutes a day adventuring in the real world of virtual creation. Enjoy and salud!