Sample Interview Questions Provided To Media
Question: Some people do not
consider utilizing “Digital Technology” as art, what is
your response?
Answer: Ah... the “Digital
Art Snobs!” Its funny because some of the digital artist groups
I belong to even argue among themselves that you must start with
a blank screen, like a blank canvas for it to become “art’,
that merely manipulating a photo/image is just pushing buttons.
From my perspective its all just a means to an artistic end, and
the computer is just another tool we now utilize. In the end its
what is important to the beholder, isn’t it?
Question: What sets your Digital
Paintings apart from others work in your field?
Answer: I attribute several
aspects that really make my digital paintings truly paintings.
Number one, the fact that I began as a traditional artist
over years ago as a teenager and still have a feel for a natural
brush, I know how the stroke of paint should look on canvas.
Two, the photographic images that I capture are artistic
images within their own right.
Finally three, the years I have put into developing a digital
technique of taking apart the image and then carefully painting
it back in layers. A tiger for example has to be traced, each strand
of fur, each whisker, and then the eyes, the nose and the mouth
have to be separated. Then layer by layer its digitally hand painted
back into the picture. Finally printing onto a canvas textured paper
completes the process of a “Pixelized” painting.
Question: You have many different
subjects in your collection, some artist focus on just one topic,
which is best?
Answer: I find beauty everywhere
my “camera eye” looks, and I feel its better to offer
everyone a wider selection that might hit their unique interest
rather than force a narrow opinion of just one topic upon them.
Plus I can do a “focused” show at any given time in the
future by having such a great depth of catalog available. My last
show I came upon a Giraffe collector who fell in Love with all of
my Giraffe paintings, who could predict that?
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