Digital Spray Paint

These paintings were more study than series, but as I practiced digital spray paint techniques, they quickly became the foundation of my painting practice.

Before digital spray paint, I had become frustrated with the limitations and tedium of vector and collage techniques, and needed something that would let me work faster, more freely, and with more a more satisfying textured finish.

I tested and rejected a bunch of brushes that imitated traditional techniques, most fell flat. I had nearly given up when I finally managed to piece together an effect that felt like it was working. The effect was based on the work of one of my favorite contemporary painters, Augustine Kofie.

After a series of digital spray paint studies, I began to find a groove, and now working this way feels more natural than other digital approaches. I can work quickly with texture and transparency, easily swapping between soft gradients and hard edges by using Adobe’s lasso tool the same way a traditional spray paint artist would use their masking tape.