It has complicated the traditional documentary role of photography, it has changed the way painters relate to materials, and it has opened a new realm of cross-media possibilities. Digital painting transforms the centuries old liquid medium into electronic pixels whose color, texture and shape can be manipulated in ways unique to the digital process. Digital photography includes the possibility of blending images or enhancement of images in ways unimaginable only a few years ago. Students develop a working competence with Fractal Design Painter and Adobe Photoshop by using the software to develop and implement cross medium projects. Course activities are centered around projects that involve transforming landscape, figure, and the found object through the digital process.
Color theory is presented and digitally applied.
The course integrates software and computers with the creative process. No knowledge of the computer is necessary to take this course. It is expected that the student has a basic level of drawing, painting, or photographic skills. The syllabus and course schedule is tentative and should be updated when indicated by the instructors. A consistent, weekly, lab time of 3 sequential hours per week will be necessary.