As I was painting this study out of my window I realized “Man, I’ve done a lot of these.” I think they first came about by an urge to get better and an extreme laziness to avoid going outside and using real paint. This is literally just the view in front of my cintiq haha! I’ve done more than just these three but I think each of these does a good job of showing where I was artistically at the time. Over the past year I started off using a program called Artrage to do all my studies because it did a great job of simulating real paint. For some reason at the time when I was starting off painting digitally my mind couldn’t really grasp the technical side of photoshop so I stuck to sloppy digital paintings. Over time though (as seen in the middle painting) I got a decent grasp of photoshop and began making works. It looked very inorganic but it was the best I could do at the time. Finally now I’m starting to learn how to create a more hypnotizing pieces of art work digitally within the confines of photoshop and now that I’m reaching this point….I don’t really like it haha. I find myself bending over backwards to get these pixels to do something that what of happened effortlessly with real paint. The screen glares, the process as a whole is not very exhilarating and my clothes are far too clean afterwords hahaha. This is not to say that digital art does not have HUGE advantages just for my personal studies I’m going to make push for more traditional works.

Enough of my rant, here is my warm up paint out of my window this morning (at the top). Enjoy 🙂

Greg Mitchell, Believe me…Believe me ….Lord knows I merq one of deees