Studio Practice: Messing around with photoshop

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Messing around with photoshop

I used three ink drawings of a plant as a basis for experimentation in Photoshop. I'm not very proficient at using Photoshop so the results aren't particularly good but I do quite like certain elements of each outcome and it was a useful exercise. I don't feel like I would often use Photoshop to create work, or that it would become integral to my practice, as I don't really like computers and, more importantly, don't ever feel free or inspired to create work when I'm looking at a screen. It seems to sap my energy a little I find the act of physically creating work with more traditional media much more enjoyable and even cathartic. However, I have definitely become aware of the benefits of using Photoshop to edit, enhance or tidy up work after I have made it physically.