Saturday, February 26, 2011

I Love Bright Colors

Brian Cole is doing something different with digital art.  He actually paints images he creates first with different kinds of paint including water colors, oils, acrylic and even fabric paint.  He then photographs the images and brings them into Photoshop to edit them on his computer.  Brian started painting in 1996 in his second year study at Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas.  He continued his education at UTD and had his first solo exhibit in 2005. Brian's work has been published in the Dizionario Enciclopedico Internazionale d’Arte moderna e Contemporanea 2009 p. 188. and was recently awarded 2nd place in the digital non-representational catagory at the American Art Awards. He says he has been influenced by Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock and Robert Williams. I love his bright and bold colors that are rendered even more intense by the digital media and think that he will go far in this new age of digital art. To see more of Brian's work click here.