Digital Art by Jay Gidwitz

The Art of Jay Gidwitz

All Posts Tagged With: "Digital Painting"

Series In Progress: Deity Series

I’m beginning work on the “Deity Series.” I actually started it and a few years back, with about three images, and then got to work on different things.
The idea is to recreate religious imagery of the plethora of Gods in the Hindu religion and perhaps some of the saints from Catholicism. I’m thinking in particular [...]

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1940’s Style Pin-Up Illustration

I’m looking for models to shoot 1940’s & 50’s style pin-up illustrations.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jay.gidwitz/PinUpsProjects#
I would shoot the photographs in front of green screen and then create the (usually sparse) environment in photoshop and then import the image into Painter X to make it look more like an organically painted image.
I would not just be recreating the look [...]

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Dream Logic: Art Exhibition Pictures 3/09

The best part of the night was hanging out with friends, munching on food and sipping (more than a few) drinks.
But also when Richard Fishman, my teacher & mentor and friend looked around the room, and said: “You’re ready for a show. I mean this is a show, but you’re ready for a show.”
Wow! A [...]

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Three New Images Added to the Portfolio

I completed these pictures over the summer (in 2007) while I was taking classes in New York City. The pictures are Dream World, River of Darkness, and Untitled Texture. All are a combination of photography and digital painting.

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Funamentals of Drawing

Drawing breaks down into only three fundamental strategies.

Drawing what you see
Drawing what you see in your mind
Automatic drawing

1) Drawing from life
Drawing from life, or drawing what you’re looking at, can have smaller strategies contained within that strategy.
Drawing from life is about training your eye to see relationships. The relationships of the shapes, the relationships of [...]

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