Fifty to 100 years from now, digital art will dominate. One of the participating artists, Arthur Nelander, dubs the computer revolution in art the second Renaissance. The first took place more than 3,000 years ago, he said, when technology gave artists better pigments and new feats of engineering made it possible to work on large-scale pieces. This time around, he said, technology is helping artists work through ideas as fast as they can think of them. It's a godsend as far as constructing ideas.
Software programs offer digital effects that mimic pencils, erasers, air brushes and paint brushes.
Yet, one doesn't give a non-artist a pencil and expect him to create a portrait or landscape that is a work of art. But that's not true. A person can be very technologically advanced but have no creative skills or training. It's possible to create something by accident, but to be successful, you really need to be an artist. Crockett was a weaver and printmaker before discovering her husband's computer six or seven years ago.