Inspiration: Dominic Davison
January 13th, 2009 | Published in Corel Painter, Featured, Inspiration | 3 Comments
Village Sunset, by Dominic Davison. Image created with Vue.
Dominic Davison is one of the finest landscape artists working today, displaying a Dutch romantic aesthetic using twenty-first century methods and tools. Though he uses a mouse instead of a paintbrush to create his images, it is his observant eye, his composition, and his use of color and light, which makes his images stand head and shoulders above his peers working in the digital media. As anyone who has tried to create a picture using 3D software knows, the computer doesn’t create the image any more than a paintbrush creates a painting. As it has always been, it is the eye and hand of the artist wielding the tools that determines the results. Or, as we used to say back in my IT days: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Davison cites 19th Century Dutch landscape master Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862) as a major influence, and it shows. Compare the following painting by Koekkoek to some of the pieces by Davison in the gallery at the bottom.
Boslandschap Met Kapel: Sous Bois, by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 1850. Oil on panel.
The work of Dominic Davison shows that the Vue toolset, combined with some postwork in Photoshop, is capable of creating fine art on a par with the masters of past centuries. You can view his freelance contact information here.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:36 am (#)
your work is fantastic….you sure are an inspiration to me….I did download the program just have to learn how to use it;-) do you use Corel Painter and Vue to get these awesome painted photos…
Simply Outstanding!
January 16th, 2009 at 2:03 am (#)
Hi,
I do sometimes use Painter, as well as Photoshop combined with Vue.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm (#)
Dom
Fantastic paintings! Any chance for a workshop or dvd? I would very much like to learn to paint like you. A response would be appreciated.
Lowell