Trubright Art

Ted at the iPad

Welcome to Trubright Creative, formerly Trubright d’Art, or Digital Art. I’ve since added paintings, and digital art became too limiting.

Digital Gen. 1 – Neurogravures

For many years my digital artworks were created exclusively with ArtMatic Pro by U&I Software, a process not unlike musical synthesis. I would start off with a promising idea and then tweak it using sliders and parameter settings until something good happened. Occasionally I hit a random image button and stumble on something beautiful but that was rare. I could take hours to find something even remotely useful, which belied the software’s name: the was nothing automatic about it!

Digital Gen. 2 – App Art

After the iPad came out, I began using apps to drawing directly on the tablet or mangle photographs. I use OmniSketch, Procreate, Snapseed, Brushes Redux, Tangled FX, Percolate, Frax and others. I created a portfolio called App Art to show them off.

About Ted

I am trained as a classical percussionist. I have a a day job in academic technology and a band called the WirePilots. For more info, here is a link to my musical “picture bio.” I started drawing as a small child and kept it up until high school when I spent more and more time studying music. For years I thought that I would get back to visual art but I didn’t know which direction to go in. One night my wife, a friend and I rented a movie about Picasso which I’m pretty sure was this one. Seeing his process was a revelation to me; I would have to be fearless before the blank paper. I decided that every attempt was just that, an attempt. There was nothing that couldn’t be thrown out or started over. This freed me up to experiment.

The first thing I did then was go back to the ink and watercolor drawings that I had done as a kid. I started with a pencil sketch and went over it with india ink. After cleaning up the drawing with an eraser, I painted it with watercolor. They were semi-abstract but with hard edges and defined colors – somewhat cartoony. I did a lot of them in all sizes. I now refer to them as Analog Gen 1. Eventually I started painting parts of them with acrylic paint so they became “mixed media” on paper. They became Analog Gen 2. Finally I jumped entirely to paint and started experimenting with abstraction, which led in a tortuous path to the drum stick portraits, or Analog Gen. 3.

I have done several shows of my ink and watercolor drawings and several of the Neurogravures. I have also done several gallery exhibits of the App Art.

Ted and Neurogravures

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