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floodlights of a remote sports ground pierce through the haze of an august evening sky. #speedpainting #plein_air_painting #artstr #paintstr #beijing #sunsetstr

in the evening, the trees and gate of the li du shui an compound formed a clear graphical silhouette against the beautiful summer sunset sky. #speedpainting #plein_air_painting #art #artstr #artnstr #painting #paintstr #beijing #china #wacom #photoshop

on that sunnny morning, a lady walked past wearing a tracksuit in the same pink-purple color as her umbrella. this is the bahe park, in chaoyang district of beijing. #plein_air_painting #art #artstr #artnstr #painting #paintstr #beijing #china #wacom #photoshop

continuing the painting session that evening, I moved a few meters over to another building. what stood out to me here was how artificial light is captured by the leafs and trunk of this tree.

light sources in a city at night are all artificial. they provide a stable lighting situation in comparison to daytime, when clouds, shadow or sun position are always changing. here I remembered the saying that light works like a splash of water - it emerges from the source, then hits nearby surfaces and rapidly weakens the further it gets away from the origin.

let's start at the beginning, when I was testing out how this digital plein air painting might actually work. for multiple years prior, I had admired the work of a designer called patrick faulwetter, who is kind of a master in digital painting. finally, I had learned from his website how he actually did this! he didn't use mobile wacom cintiqs (the one with the screen), an ipad or whatever, he just used a laptop and a small A5 wacom intuous (the one without screen). on top of that, he used a camping chair to sit down practically anywhere and just paint what he saw. finally grasping how to pull this off, I got myself the exact same equipment and went out to sit somewhere and just paint what I saw.

@MÜNZWEG @Tobo⚡ do you know if a google pixel with graphene has a good enough camera and software to use it as document scanner?

painting is fun, in the early morning or later evening, depending on the season, you get the most beautiful sunlight. with a laptop rig it's possible to stand anywhere and paint anything, digitally. I am not yet convinced if digital paintings can have an aura, as oil or watercolor paintings do, because there is no "original" version. the "original" is a photoshop file. if they can have a physical aura, then it will only be perceivable in combination with bitcoin. nothing digital had a physical aura, until 2009.

lake tegel, berlin | photoshop + wacom intuous BT M | block 842412