Michael Manning is a Los Angeles based artist whose work, 100 Paintings, exemplifies the limitless possibilities that digital painting offers. He originally created 100 digital paintings, then with the help of coder, Zach Shipko, created the website 100paintings.gallery. The website randomly creates a composition by layering five of the paintings on top of each other. A new composition is created every time the page is refreshed. There are 9 billion possible unique compositions made from layering all of the 100 paintings in different sets of five. While it would have been the endeavor of a lifetime to paint 9 billion paintings using a traditional medium, with digital painting and coding, the work is made a reality.
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http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/sep/3/brushes/
http://www.100paintings.gallery/
Thank you for sharing Michael Manning's work! I think this artist's project truly exemplifies the reality that digital painting requires and embodies an entirely new set of tools and characteristics that traditional painting does not. While perhaps the general principles of design can present themselves across media, it is evident from this work that digital painting expands our traditional notions of what painting can be and do.
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