Craig Childs
Craig Childs
Milk and Pot
Digital Painting (created with mouse gestures)
70 x 50cm
$90
This series was created before lockdowns.
Painted objects had to be within 1m of me.
The process was to do a fast pencil sketch on scrap paper.
Photograph it with my phone then send to photoshop.
Then paint using only a mouse.
Export again to procreate and paint extra layers.
Then finally upload to my website.
Pencil and paper - phone-desktop and mouse- tablet - website.
I was inspired by the many layers and depth of colour of Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning’s process of overpainting. I was also interested in the settings depicted in artworks by Francis Bacon. All the objects have a similar point of view and are given a place in space on various planes.
I used a similar final colour palette to that of Giorgio Morandi and his still life series. The paintings underneath are bright red and blue