Author: Angela Gunder

  • You’ll Be the One

    You’ll Be the One

    There’s something magical about crossing the threshold on a creative journey that you can never come back from. This work was my first digital painting with Adobe Fresco, and it came many years after I’d first longed to marry my digital art practice with my analog one. I remember seeing my dear friend and brilliant…

  • The Art and Praxis of Remix

    The Art and Praxis of Remix

    I think quite a bit about the pride one feels for the process of making art as much as the pride in the artwork (or the product of process). I also think a lot about the pathology that makes us hesitate before jumping into the creative process and celebrating our engagement in the act of…

  • The Creative Process as the Architecture of Joy

    The Creative Process as the Architecture of Joy

    I’ve been meaning to not wait too long to write my thoughts down that have been swirling. While it’s good to give some feelings a bit of space to see them for what they truly are, it’s also easy enough to let them slip through your fingers. I study and write about creativity, pursuing new…

  • Face Painting

    Face Painting

    I’ve been toying with brushes, masks and blending modes with my merges lately. Granted, I’m always using the three, but not usually so heavily and to such a painterly effect. My older merges were less reliant on the computer as I was trying to mimic the analog process as closely as possible with as few…

  • Sans Souris

    Sans Souris

    Does the output of the photographic process differ based on the process mode of analog versus digital? As a member of the Oregon Trail Generation, I grew up in a household that ran with the evolution of computer technology. While I don’t believe in classifications of digital natives and digital immigrants, I can claim that…