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Reddish Egret 2 Digital Art by Owen Bell

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Comments (23)

Sandi OReilly

Sandi OReilly

Ownen, incredible artwork, congrats on your sale.

Thomas Luca

Thomas Luca

Congratulations on your recent sale!

Owen Bell

Owen Bell

Thank you all for your comments, but please, it isn't a 'capture'. A 'capture' suggests it is a photograph, which it isn't. Neither is it photo-manipulation. It is a digital painting based on a photograph. Believe me, there is a world of difference.

Ramona Matei

Ramona Matei

Congrats on your sale!

Delores Swanson

Delores Swanson

Wonderful capture....Congradulations

Rosalie Scanlon

Rosalie Scanlon

Sorry, I just assumed it was a photo, excellent digital painting.

Rosalie Scanlon

Rosalie Scanlon

Wow, fantastic capture with incredible timing and detail. voted.

Owen Bell

Owen Bell

Shortly after posting my last entry, I remembered that I have actually experienced artwork damage. It was last year. I did a painting in acrylics on canvas for my eldest daughter living in the UK who turned 40. I have done a couple of portraits of her in the past and she always insists on 'paint on canvas'! Anyway, I had a lot of trouble painting it, but finally managed to finish it, but wanted to get it scanned so I could get prints made ( for myself, and other family members) It was too big to scan myself, so took it to a place in town, where it was scanned and sent to a place where they can make large 'art prints'. Imagine my horror when I went to pick up both the painting and the prints, when I found the painting had a 3 inch long tear in it!!! The print guy was most apologetic but said he didn't tear it so it must have been delivered like that from the scanner people, but I couldn't challenge them as I had no proof. Anyway, fortunately the tear was in an area which was relatively easy to fix and not noticeable and I repaired it and the repair was almost invisible. I then shipped it off to the UK and fortunately, it survived the trip and now hangs on my daughter's wall. I told her about the 'accident' but she had to look really hard to spot the damage. Even so, it was a nightmare and one that would not have happened had it been a digital painting. Warning about external HD's: Like all HD's they have a shelf life and can die on you without warning (as they have with me) so it's good you don't rely totally on them (as I don't) Discs are a safe bet as are thumbdrives. You can NEVER back up too much!!! X

Owen Bell

Owen Bell

I still paint with trad media very occasionally, painting portraits of my kids (now adult) mainly, but I work exclusively digitally for my work, for all the reasons expressed above. Having a 'one off' is fine, but if you are doing this stuff for a living, as I do, if your 'one off' is damaged in transit or lost, then it's a time/money consuming (not to say damned annoying) exercise have to paint the whole thing again from scratch. Working digitally completely eliminates the problem. In the unlikely event of a disc or file being lost or damaged, you just send another one via FTP or another disc via snail mail. Takes no time and virtually no money. How could you not see the logic in that? In all the years I was working with trad media and sending artwork all over the world, I must admit that this never happened, but the fact is, it could have and it was always a huge source of worry, having shipped off artwork that took maybe months to paint and wondering if it got to it's destination undamaged or at all. Great relief not to even have to think about that now...so long as I remember to back everything up OFF the computer and onto a cd Rom. I have copies of over 700 pieces I have done digitally for the WWF, whereas I have NO copies of the similar amount work I did for them with trad media, before I 'went digital' about 8 years ago. I rest my case!

Owen Bell

Owen Bell

Thanks Rosy. That's all true. While painting digitally is certainly quicker and easier for me to do, mainly because of the style in which I paint, it still requires skill and a lot of time to do. This idea that it's 'not real painting' or 'cheating' really annoys me. If Da Vinci or Michaelangelo were alive, they would be using digital media, at the very least, experimenting with it. Check out what the British painter David Hockney is doing with iPads!!! He is willing to try new forms of expression. I met him in his studio in London in the 70's and saw him working and there's no way he needs to 'cheat' to create his art. No doubt, there are those who will consider that he is 'selling out', which just goes to show how ignorant they are.

Owen Bell

Owen Bell

No need to apologize Viva, but thanks all the same. It's a very common misconception and one which seems to stick, no matter how much I try to dispel it. I should really take it as a compliment, but it's worth pointing out that painting these images takes infinitely longer to do (usually 3 days/36 working hours) to paint. I don't think they would take anything like that amount of time to photograph!

Natalie Holland

Natalie Holland

Owen, your work is awesome! Congratulations! :)

Jackie Mueller-Jones

Jackie Mueller-Jones

Spectacular!!!

Xueling Zou

Xueling Zou

Congratulations! What a masterful capture, and I love the dramatic moment of your capture, bravo!!

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