Galapagos Islands from Under Water

by Angela Stanton

Title

Galapagos Islands from Under Water

Artist

Angela Stanton

Medium

Painting - Pastel

Description

I just arrived back from my trip of a life time. I spent a week photographing Galapagos Islands in every which way--including under water. Here the waters are quite turbulent with the Humboldt Current constantly moving the water and pushing much tiny life to blur the vision. It is better seen in a painting what it is like below the waters. This painting is created from a digital photograph and is not from my imagination.

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! Flat shadows remain flat in print but digital shadows remain textured shadows.

It is a frequent complaint of buyers after purchasing a print of a photograph of an oil or acrylic paint on canvas that it prints flat, 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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October 1st, 2013

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