Pixelism
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| I
started playing around with computerised images around 1984 on a ZX Spectrum
computer. Back in those days there was no photoshop, no internet, and
no pentium processor, so every dot you wanted to show on the TV had to
be programmed into a computer using an obscure set of instructions. It
took ages but it was so rewarding! Plus, your palette of colours was limited
to 16 (if you had the advanced version). And there were often crazy mistakes, get one number wrong and the
whole thing would show weird and fantastic patterns never before seen by man. One day while I was painstakingly inputting an image, using numbers for each dot, it dawned on me that these low resolution images would make wonderfully playful paintings. I tried one with watercolour and Pixelism was born. Now I still reverse engineer images to get back to that primitive low resolution and paint the result in oil. Reverse engineering... the effects of low resolution painted in oil. Who says oil painting can't have an ironic sense of humour? |