Online Paintings

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software.

Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as contrasting to a more modern style like digital.

Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model.

The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer. All digital painting programs try to imitate the use of physical media through various brushes and paint effects.

In most digital painting programs, the user can create their own brush style using a combination of texture and shape. This ability is very important in bridging the gap between traditional and digital painting.

Digital painting thrives mostly in production art. It is most widely used in conceptual design for film, television and video games.

Digital painting software such as Coral Painter, Adobe Photo shop, Art Rage, GIMP, and open Canvas give artists a similar environment to a physical painter: a canvas, painting tools, mixing palettes, and a multitude of color options.

There are various types of digital painting, including impressionism, realism, and watercolor.

There are both benefits and drawbacks of digital painting.

While digital painting allows the artist the ease of working in an organized, mess-free environment, some argue there will always be more control for an artist holding a physical brush in their hand.

Some artists believe there is something missing from digital painting, such as the character that is unique to every physically made object.

Many artist post blogs and comment on the various differences between digitally created work and traditionally created artwork.

The third important work of this period is the Virgin of the Rocks which was commissioned in Milan for the Confraternity of the Immaculate

The painting, to be done with the assistance of the de Predis brothers, was to fill a large complex altarpiece, already constructed Leonardo chose to paint an apocryphal moment of the childhood of Christ when the Infant John the Baptist, in protection of an angel, met the Holy Family on the road to Egypt.

The angel helping to the poor family.This picture revels the innocence of the poor family.

In this scene, as painted by Leonardo, John recognizes and worships Jesus as the Christ.

The painting demonstrates an eerie beauty as the graceful figures kneel in adoration around the infant Christ in a wild landscape of tumbling rock and whirling water.

While the painting is quite large, it is not nearly as complex as the painting ordered by the monks of St Donato, having only four figures rather than about fifty and a rocky landscape rather than architectural details.

The painting was eventually finished; in fact, two versions of the painting were finished, one which remained at the chapel of the Confraternity and the other which Leonardo carried away to France.

But the Brothers did not get their painting, or the de Predis their payment, until the next century.