Art Bites

By Tom Hubbard http://tom- hubbard. artistwebsites.com/   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=-oUSfodI6Hs   Schools consider art an aside from intellectual activity. Once a college major is chosen, course selection becomes more constricted. This constricted view sees imagination as a weakness. Social conversation respects and rewards precision of thought. The professional world rewards “critical thinking.” There is a whole world of emotion beyond this thinking. Think of a joyous moment in your life. It was driven by emotion, not critical thinking.   In evolution, emotion came to early humans long before modern thinking. Emotion drives evolution, then and now, even on a personal level. We find happiness in emotion. Music, movies and literature are industries based on emotion. I think it’s clear that emotion is in play when we choose political candidates. In all of this emotion in popular culture, fine art is a niche, but it’s becoming ...

It has been quit sometime since I have posted on Blogger. I have been making http://www.galleryswarm.com a success. Also, I have been working on the own site http://www.gillisfineart.com .  Soon I will be published in A book of over 100 artists.  This work by Samuel Gillis will be published in  Reflections, A Collection of Art  by  Art Impressions  Publishing ​ Order your copy at   http://www.fine-artbooks.com/bookstore.html Also Samuel Gillis owner of Gallery Swarm will try to go to Russia by invite of a rep from Russia. They want me to exhibit, lecture, paint and be on television in August. 

This piece created in Illustrator.  The composition is complex.  Use of color was done well.  This should be turned into a painting. One day!

I spent many hours working on this project in Adobe Illustrator.  Pushing and pulling all the many layers that made up this image.  It was very challenging and rewarding at the same time.  Might be interesting to turn something like that image into a painting.  Ideas abundant not to put them on canvas.

Scanner Darkly and Self Portrait of Artist Working in AI is amazing I enjoy the medium and the things that are possible with that program. Using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop together is a creative way to make digital images.  I could see some of these images turn into great paintings.