November, 2010

A caricature can refer to a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In a well done caricature the viewers should be able to easily identify the subject. Many artists can draw a decent likeness of a well-known face, but the challenge is to capture not just the likeness but the character of the person. The artist will have a very developed sense of noticing the particularities of physical appearance and find a way of expressing them through…

Vexel is a neologism for an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the visual appearance of vector graphics technique (i.e. sharp-edged lines and areas of flat color or smooth gradient fills). The word itself is a portmanteau derived from a combination of “vector” and “pixel”. Vexels are often characterized by crisp, clean color and lines (that look nearly vector-graphics style) but is entirely pixel-based, with a variety of color levels, from 2-color outlines to pseudo-realism. Vexels are quite flexible to create and there are various methods of creating…

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects may be used. In art the term describes both the act and the result which is called a painting. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, portrait, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where…