Computer and Iphone art
Mic Rees’ has exhibited locally and throughout Australia. There are has collectors of his work in Australia and overseas. In Sydney Mic studied in Sydney in both traditional fine art majoring in painting and also graphic designHe is now employed in Port Macquarie as a graphic designer. After spending most of his early life on the NSW Central Coast he moved with his wife and daughter to the Blue Mountains then to Lake Cathie on the Mid North Coast. Subjects found in these locations often inspire his paintings.
Mic's illustrations have been featured in and on the covers of national publications such as Gourmet Wine Traveller, Internet AU, PC User. In Desktop magazine where Mic was featured as an emerging Australian illustrator. He is soon to feature in a book on iphone and ipad artists from around the world.
Mic's work is initiated on site in the form of sketches and studies. Then using a digital pen and drawing tablet is drawn directly onto the computer in high resolution. The finished work is printed on archival cotton rag paper using Gi Clee process. Recently he has been producing his work “on the go”
on an iphone using a painting application called Brushes a portable drawing paintbox on the iphone.
Gi Clee or pigment based inks
Mic uses pigment based inks (Epson K3 inks), which are specialist archival quality inks like a paint (pigment) and prints on cotton rag archival paper and watercolour paper for the best possible archival results.
The list of artists who produce their work in this way include such prominent names as Frank Stella, Francesco Clemente, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Andrew Wyeth, John Baldessari.
Likewise, many accomplished photographers are selling their work in Giclee editions: Richard Avedon, Joyce Tenneson, Pedro Meyer, Chuck Close, Olivia Parker, William Wegman, Greg Heisler, Joel Meyerowitz, and the landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.
more interesting links on GiClee,iphone, ipad and computer painting
Epson K3 inks (GiClee)
David Hockney on iphone and ipad painting
Soon featured in iphone ipad book
