A Study in Creative Exploration

Studio Artist is an incredibly rich sand box for artistic creative exploration and discover. Creativity is an active process of discovery of new ideas. Typically by generating many trial ideas, and then discarding useless or unproductive ones. I thought it might be illuminating to break down a particular instance of some personal creative exploration that…

Craig Deeley’s Natural Media Presets

Studio Artist user Craig Deeley has put together a really wonderful collection of natural media paint presets. These presets are primarily designed for manual hand painting, and emulate different natural media types. The different art media tools provided include things like watercolor, ink, charcoal, pencil, oil paint, pastels, and crayons as well as more exotic…

Gallery Show ‘Surprise Me’

Gallery Show is a new automated presentation feature in Studio Artist 4. Gallery Show allows you to construct custom art shows that could be displayed in a gallery or used in a live performance. Gallery Show is also a great tool for automatically generating collections of art images and the presets that built them. You…

H.J. Kropp’s Visual sketchBLOG

  We recently stumbled upon Studio Artist user H.J. Kropp’s visual sketchbook blog, and it’s truly awe inspiring. Lot’s of great Studio Artist generated art there. There’s also some cool examples of his Studio Artist ‘One Minute Paintings’ which is a really interesting way to approach creating art that is fun, fast, and highly successful.…