How Jerry Morrison executes his "digital medium" paintings...

 

HOW JERRY MORRISON 

EXECUTES HIS 

"DIGITAL MEDIUM"

PAINTINGS:

Besides his traditional media paintings, you'll find a lot of Mr. Morrison's "digital medium" paintings here as well. How does he complete these "digital medium" paintings? Using the computer "paint" program, Mr. Morrison completes his digital medium paintings by manipulating his computer mouse manually on his mouse pad, much as though the mouse pad itself were his canvass and his mouse his paint brush. However, the images he paints so carefully on his mouse pad with the mouse, actually take concrete color and shape not on the mouse pad but on his computer monitor screen (many people find this way of painting digitally quite difficult). The computer paint program provides a palette for him as well, from which Mr. Morrison manually accesses his colors. Mr. Morrison, unlike, say, his fellow artist Mr. Andy Morgan, does not use a touchscreen when manually painting via the computer paint program (digitally). Mr. Morrison prefers the aforementioned mouse-as-paintbrush method, while Mr. Morgan likes to apply the plastic tip of a pen cap or pen barrel directly to a computer touchscreen, with the touchscreen acting as his canvass and the pen cap tip (or barrel tip) his brush.

It should be noted that Mr. Morrison rarely paints in the digital (computer paint) medium any longer. A few years ago he began concentrating almost solely on the more traditional media-- acrylics, watercolors, chalks, and the like.  At this site, you'll find more samples of Mr. Morrison's traditional media pieces than you will of his digital medium pieces, but hopefully you'll enjoy both.  To access works by the aforementioned Andy Morgan, click (under "SIDEBARS", which you'll find up near the top right hand corner) "Links You Should Check Out"; then click the link to Andy Morgan's artist's website. Like Mr. Morrison, Mr. Morgan has also taken up the more traditional media of late. The two artists often work together.