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COLUMBIA UPSIDE DOWN

1989/4/7 (tweaked 1992) nondream digital picture, by Chris Wayan.

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" has an exercise I highly recommend: paint from a photo that's upside down to force yourself to see it naively, not paint trees green and sky blue. I tried this with a photo of a favorite spot of mine, on the Columbia River Gorge, though not with physical paint--with a mouse, on my new Amiga computer.

Pavilion overlooking the Columbia River Gorge in low sunset light
When I flipped this rightside up at the end I found that, given only 16 colors (all I had--remember this was the late 1980s and computer graphics were primitive) it was more realistic than most of my art.
Pavilion overlooking the Columbia River Gorge in low sunset light
Of course my other work was from dreams. It's hard to paint dreams realistically. Those reference photos never come out.


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