Sunday Salon: The Artists Handbook
Granted, it’s not fiction, but there is plenty of stuff in there to let you imagine to your hearts content.
I chose the section today on Digital Image Manipulation. pgs 262 - 271
Amazon.com: The Artist’s Handbook: Books: Ray Campbell SmithOkay, so I don’t read all fiction.
Lately, I’ve been fascinated by digital image creation… from scratch and also from pre-existing images.
So I decided to check out this little section of one of my art books I had kinda avoided before. The Artists Handbook is a must have for any artists’ library, just for the sheer number of medias represented in there. Everything from print-making to scratchboard, to making your own paints is covered.
Anyway, getting back to the section I read today.
All in all, I found it a very vague introductory to the techniques that could have been mentioned. But I guess entire books have also been written about digital imaging, such as the hundreds of photoshop books available at your local Barnes and Noble.
This was a small section with very vague content, and very few methods discussed, but it fit for today. Why?
My wife has been sick with the Flu all evening and I only had time for a few pages of reading.
So what value did I get out of the book?
Digital Printmaking made the whole section worthwhile.
While I found the section on manipulating images taken from a photographed tv image intriguing, and slightly annoying, printmaking piqued my interest.
Specifically 4 color printmaking.
I had never really delved into this area as my only experience with printmaking was cutting linoleum blocks in my junior year of high school.
Well separating out the colors is about as far as I got and a great example of what can be accomplished by using this method.
This is something I will have to look into more.
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