TITLE:
Landscape Painting in Digital Technology: Rudimentary Procedural Lessons in Adobe Photoshop
AUTHORS:
Godfred Yeboah Annum
KEYWORDS:
Computer Graphic Application Software, Digital Painting Technologies, Digital Landscape Painting, Colour Formulation, Compositional Rendering Skills
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.12 No.3,
June
28,
2024
ABSTRACT: The lack of technological knowhow for Computer Graphic Application Software is indeed affecting the exploration of the art of Digital painting technologies among fine art painters in Ghana despite its popularity within the global fraternity of fine artists. Unlike the traditional painting profession that requires mainly creative rendering skills to practice, digital painting requires both computer technological knowhow and creative artefactual rendering skill to practice. It has therefore been the aim of the author of this paper to explore the digital technologies in Adobe Photoshop for painting various stylistic areas in fine art painting with the same dexterity as practiced in easel painting to foster popularisation of this art in Ghana. In this practice-led research paper, the focus is on Digital Landscape Painting in Adobe Photoshop. The descriptive method for documentation of practice-led activities in design-based research has therefore been adopted to present the outcome of his research in a detail illustrative procedural format to help inculcate the skills for colour formulation and compositional rendering skills in digital landscape painting.