Altered (thanks to seurat, close and hockney)

I managed to get a little painting in last night. I suppose that saying I did a little painting isn't so much news these days. However, I did manage to try out some new ideas and directions.
Technically speaking it can be summed up as pixelization of some pre existing paintings I have been working on. I cannot argue that such ideas and styles are remotely unique or new. You can't devalue any exploration regardless of the ubiquity of the mode. So for myself it is an exercise of thought and hand that can only do good.
To start with, you can't say that on a painter's canvas pixels aren't the bastard child of pointillism. The process of digitally storing information in pixels and compression is a different story. On the two dimensional plane it is just some fusion of aesthetic choice and inquiry of how we see.
Georges-Pierre Seurat
The similarities lie more in the was we see things more than the way things are made. That is to say that the comparison I am making here has less to do with the actions of the painter and more with how the product is witnessed.

Chuck Close

So tho effect changes in my work I am trying to break down the things I painted in my usual way. I should mention I am using pieces I never felt good about, in a sense I was trying to rescue the paintings.


David Hockney
This next pict is one of the altered one, the other I don't seem to have a previous pic. more later