WendyPaint℠ by Kim Asendorf

by mthw

WendyPaint℠ is to me one of the greatest projects of this year, it has the same DNA than its creator, online based, patterns, pixels, gradients, glitches and other properties you can find on Kim Asendorf's work. It is basically an online pixel pattern painter, where the user has to create his/her own patterns and paint with. All the patterns are created into a 32 x 32px box which is the maximum size for the brush and in that space you can create whatever you want, I think 32px is enough for a pixel pattern tool, it's the double size than a favicon and per example you can reproduce a lot of already existent icons from the internet whose fit perfect on that space. To build your own patterns it's an interesting and creative process, one has to care quite a lot about the edges of the pattern because WendyPaint only offers one way painting mode which is by dragging the pattern and doing a continue stroke if you keep the brush going on, and one click equals one pattern, so edges are important on here. Once the pattern is done you can edit it using some rotating and flipping features and save them in different modes, but what it's really nice it's that you can also create others using little code through the colour pattern generator and modulator which works using i, x, y, w; variables and with that it's possible to create infinite geometric and glitchy patterns and gradients very quickly, some examples into the post. Another good point is that the users have the option to share the patterns they do and build a public huge archive of patterns, good online based concept. It also has a Stream where there are all the public pieces, make sure you click on the checkbox when saving your painting as it is hidden by default. See more;

WendyPaint's interface it's simple as it's the whole project. I didn't find an undo command to go back some steps while painting but this is probably related to some glitch art concept considering every error beautiful and necessary for the final piece :) . Users who like geometry, the shift key works to keep the horizontal and vertical lines straight, it works on the canvas as well as on the pattern canvas.

In the first image below you can see the interface and in the second one how the modulator formula works, I have drawn a Nyan Cat and then used the modulator to distort it and create an abstract and random new pattern, it is even nice how it glitches. By the way in the Pattern Manager you will find a pattern album I did called eICONS containing few icons, an example of it's the first WendyPainting below.

For people who doesn't know to code and play with the colour generator and pattern modulator here are some examples to introduce you to the fun.

Generator Formula

RED	255	Math.floor(i/4)	i % w
GREEN	8*x	(x+y)*4	255 - (x+y)*4
BLUE	8*y	255 - y*8	y % 8
Alpha	-	-	(x % 4) / 4

Modulator Formula

Math.floor(Math.PI * x + w % y)

Math.floor(Math.random() * w * w)

i - x * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(y) * w)

x * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(y) * w)

x * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(i) * w / y)

i-x * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(x) * w / y)

Math.min(i, x) * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(x) * w / y)

Math.max(i%x, x*y) * Math.floor(Math.sqrt(i%y) * w)

Interface

WendyPaintings

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by dontsave

by mthw

by D0min0

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by anti render

Enda O'Donoghue

Glad to see a great update of Enda O'Donoghue's work, which continues capturing through oil paintings the glitched random photographs he finds on the internet featuring different kind of errors. If you didn't know about his precise work, I recommend to read and interview we did 3 years ago about his process painting and more, see here.

Enda O'Donoghue opens today a new solo show at Klettgau Galerie which will be running till next 9 March 2014. See more;

Some of the paintings below also have been made using acrylic and oil paints, to see more information, titles, dimensions and large details of each painting featured here, check out his website.

Roland Schimmel

"Over the last two decades, Dutch artist Roland Schimmel has produced a compelling oeuvre of abstract paintings to which digital animations have been added more recently (these films are “illustrated” by music of composer David Lopato). What the works have in common is the exploration of sensorial frontiers. the paintings and animations depict optical structures or fields, in which the soft contours of shimmering haloes and hard edges of black holes pop up and meet. Observing the encounter of these contrasting forms evokes physical sensations of expansion and contraction reminiscent of op art’s push and pull effects." - Minus Space. See more;

Blind Spot I, 2004

Blind Spot II, 2004

Blind Spot III, 2004

Acrylic paintings on canvas

noirlac

Beautiful pixel based works made by noirlac who has hundreds of pieces created digitaly painting through different pixel patterns. I selected some darkscapes but recommend to check out all the work at http://noirlac.tumblr.com/ to see more landscapes, sunsets cityscapes.. It's interesting also the light effect in some pieces which works only through 2 frames GIF animation. See more;

Susie Rosmarin

Acrylic paintings on canvas by Susie Rosmarin.

"Susie Rosmarin makes colorful, eye-popping paintings that play with repeating patterns and variations of color. The works themselves are visually stunning, attaining many of the kinetic optical-illusion effects of op-art. To Rosmarin, though, the extraordinary visual effects are secondary to the fundamental, on-canvas changes of light and color. "I never set out to do [op-art]. It was a byproduct of my process. So I had to accept it and go with it. And I did."

In the mid-90s, Rosmarin became fascinated with mathematical patterns -- how things arrive at certain sums. Because of the nature of her process, Rosmarin has to wait until the end to see how the work has come together into a unified whole, a final sum. She doesn't know exactly how it's going to look until she pulls the last piece of tape off. When talking about why she enjoys painting, Rosmarin says very matter-of-factly: "Making something happen on a piece of canvas is really satisfying."" - David Feil. See more;