Digital abstract art : "La nuit des icebergs".
Artist: Roger Godbout.
2022, Neuville, Quebec, Canada.
Theme: Night, ice floes, icebergs, horizontal, photopainting
Technic: Photopainting.
Format original work: 30 x 17 inches (76.2 x 43.18 cm).
Reproduction format: 20 x 11 in (50.8 x 27.94 cm), 30 x 17 in (76.2 x 43.18 cm)
Dominant colors: White, grey, black, blue
Hanging system included:
Floating frame
Interpretation of the work by the artist:
In the Arctic night, south of Greenland, each spring, the ice pack gives birth to these monuments of ice that will sail to Newfoundland, perhaps to another Titanic?
La nuit des icebergs - Roger Godbout
Roger Godbout uses the term photopainting to describe this new discipline, a form of mixed media that combines classical photography and digital painting.
At the beginning, he does what any photographer does: find a subject, frame, choose a focal length, adjust the exposure etc. It is thereafter that he forks towards a more graphic approach by reworking this photograph on computer with various software of treatment of the image. (Photoshop of course but several others are at his disposal. These are his brushes, his color tubes, his stamps).
From the original image, he applies different filters either to the whole or to parts of the image with fusion masks. Then he makes these different layers react to each other by choosing the blending mode and the degree of transparency.