Still Life – Two Pears
Still life painting – Pears
I added digital painting tools such as Krita to my painting processes a good few years ago now, I love the directness that they offer and the ability to start working quickly. I find that they help me to plan out the processes involved in each painting that I want to complete.
Using digital structures such as layers and masks I can get a painting organised in my mind, making good notes along the way. Later when it comes to using Oils or Acrylic paints for the same work or project, I then have a good idea as to how I will approach my processes.
My digital painting work-desk, uses an easel placed to one side of my monitor to hold my source work such as (sketches, photos or a tablet). If I am painting directly from a still life setup I place my monitor to one side and paint on screen in the same way as having a canvas on an easel! I use a Wacom tablet and art pens as my drawing tools.
The still life images I have posted here are from a set that show the steps from the start to the finish of a still life of two pears, making good use of Layers and masks etc..,
Digital art work with a poem ( This Landscape Before Me By Sarah Holland-Batt)
The Landscape before me
A digital drawing
Using Krita and a Wacom Tablet
Nigel Borrington 2020
This Landscape Before Me
By : Sarah Holland-Batt
First the factory stood, quiet as an asylum.
Then the annihilating mallee with its red fists of blossoms
and the mountain ash creeping over it like a stain.
I have no proof, but I tell you
there were leadlight windows here once, barred.
They cast a little striped light on the women.
Now in scrub and yellow broom I stand on a history
braided and unbraided by stiff Irish wrists.
The rope and span and carded wool are unpicked
as are their faces and names.
Londonderry, Cork, Galway, Kildare—
as I say the words they are sucked away
to a hemisphere in darkness.
I will not presume to say
what suffering is or how it was meted out in this place.
At what point it breaks a body I cannot tell.
But this morning I saw a young rabbit
hunched in brush and shadow.
I saw its lesioned face, its legs too thin to scramble,
the blood-berry red and pink scab of its eye.
It had caught the disease
we brought here for it
and wanted a quiet place to die.
And it was lucky, or as lucky as it would get—
there was time and light, the hawks and dogs
had not been written yet, and were still out of sigh
Charcoal drawing – A tribute to the work of Trevor Grimshaw …….
Digital Charcoal drawing
In the style of Trevor Grimshaw
Following my post yesterday, I have started working with my PC based art application ( Krita ) in order to use its charcoal drawings tools to recreate as best as I can the landscapes style of Trevor Grimshaw.
Tomorrow I will give myself time to work at my desk with actual physical charcoal and chalk, I do feel very much however that a digital method of producing a work of art is just as valid in 2020, as working with physical materials, every mark made on my drawing above is made manually using a Wacom art tablet with an art pen. I often use this method of working to work out just how best to construct drawings and painting, when later it comes to sitting down with a sheet of physical paper or canvas.
Nigel Borrington 
Sketches of Ireland , kilcooley Abbey, County Tipperary
Sketches of Ireland
Kilcooley Abbey
Tipperary
Nigel Borrington
Last week I revisited Kilcooley Abbey in country Tipperary with the aim of capturing some images to produce some sketches and paintings from.
The Abbey is an amazing location and this quick sketch is made on my tablet using Krita a digital painting application. I like the idea of fast sketches, they are not meant to be anything like finished work but by doing them you feel you know the location your hoping to work with very well, be it for painting/drawing or photography.
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March 1, 2016 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, Forgotten places, Landscape | Tags: art work, Digital art work, kilcooley Abbey, Krita, Nigel Borrington | Leave a comment