E-painting

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e-painting [also known as photo-painting; photo-painture; or photogemaelde ]: means

a) an artistic image created from a photograph template, often taken from an artwork originally created in another medium, such as oil, acrylic, watercolour, etc.; or

b) a work of art created electronically (digital painting) from a blank page using a paint software programme without a photographic template

and each e-painting shows a variance to the others in the series, making it unique.

The artist uses a s/w programme (mouse or digital pen)to electronically (digitally) paint over, manipulate, or artistically render by hand a photographic image template or new blank page template to digitally create a work of art that incorporates stylistically the characteristics of a painting that could have been created with other established traditional methods.

The convention determining a true e-painting is: a hand-signed and limited number edition of 00-09 (maximum) giclée prints on canvas issued by the artist (with 00 being the artist's proof) as varying one-off versions. Such individually rendered prints may also be partially overpainted in oil or acrylics or other media to accent aspects. The imposition of constraints is necessary to give artistic unity and definition to a composition and its use.

Photopainting such a creation in a digital mode is an original art form on par with classical art forms of painting and photography. The e-painting represents an original work of art in itself and draws on both artforms photographie and painting and the custom of limited edition prints.

An e-painting may have been derived from or inspired by another original work. There are many classical precedents of variations on a theme or even copies in a different mode and style (Picasso for example in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon)

1 Origin of the Term
2 Photo-Painting Process
3 See also
4 Sources
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the Term

The term e-painting was coined for collectors in Mai 2005 by James d'Argantel Odrowaz of OMNIART-EUROPA to catch an evolving aspect of the digital artform which establishes unique works of art that are not just massproduced copies or limited prints. It also represents the popularisation of a body of work of originals at affordable prices to art-lovers who cannot afford expensive original oils, and can afford artists a reasonable source of income.

An e-painting thus describes and represent an original, giclée-printed, digitally photo-painted (and on occasion hand rendered with other media such as oil or acrylics), work of art.

e-painting example "Unfinished Portrait of a Youth" by XT 2007.

[edit] Photo-Painting Process

The image "Unfinished Portrait of a Youth" was crated to illustrate the creation of an e-painting in progress, before almost completion. Details were finished except for the face and some background. It serves as an example that in photo-painting more artistic skills than just the clever touching up of photographs are required.

The artist XT painted this image in the programmes photoimpact and photoshop from an original ink sketch, using the mouse only.