Beauty is in the Belief of the Beholder

by Angela Stanton

Title

Beauty is in the Belief of the Beholder

Artist

Angela Stanton

Medium

Painting - Oil

Description

This painting was inspired by a photo of a rock that was posted by Linda Toy Segerson who took three photos of this amazing rock. It looked to me like the rock was complaining so it was just a matter of a moment to think of what it may be complaining about. In the meantime, I wanted to get an important message out to children (and people in general) about the importance of what we think of beauty, someone else may think of ugliness. Hence the title. I think this is an important message. This painting was created from compiled photos to retain their originality. The photos of the bird, the Coral tree, and the background are my photos, which I then painted minimally in Photoshop.

This is digitally painted by hand on my computer. Digitally painted pictures printed on canvas have the nicest effects. Since I was a painter in oil and other mediums like tempera for 30 years, I understand what an oil paint should look like and I those skills are added to my digital paintings.

Digital paintings have many advantages over paintings that were originally painted on canvas or paper and then photographed and posted for sale as print. The most important of these advantages of digital over "real" is that since digital was created digitally, it will look printed on canvas or paper exactly as you see it on the monitor and not flat!

It is a frequent complaint of buyers after purchasing a print of a photograph of an oil or acrylic paint on canvas, since on your monitor you see the digitally photographed version of that oil or acrylic paint and the textures are flat shadows and not digital shadows--there is a difference.

Digital photography of highly textured items like oil or acrylic paint removes all textures and makes them appear flat. You don't get this problem with digital art. You get exactly what you see! It is also green art--meaning it uses nontoxic materials and doesn't kill trees in the making!

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July 30th, 2013

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