September is the last month of the grant I received from The Finnish Cultural Foundation. It’s time to show you the final virtual reality artwork and share more about my journey from painting to creating digital 3D art.
This week’s video is a sequel to the video “From Painting to Digital 3D Art” which was published in April this year.
Finished Virtual Reality Artwork – Watch the video!
In this second video, you continue to see how I transferred the visual and expressive language of my paintings into a 3-dimensional digital format. All this includes adding movement, sounds, and interaction. It’s a pity that you can’t experience my VR artwork with virtual glasses and hand controllers, but I have made all kinds of recordings to deliver the experience at least partly.
I hope you enjoy this video that not only presents the VR artwork called “Unknown Land,” but also talks about painting and developing a stronger artistic vision.
This is one of the biggest projects that I have had, and it feels sad that it’s now coming to an end. I seek opportunities to display my virtual reality artwork, and hope to have a private exhibition in the near future that has both my paintings and digital motion art.
Integrate!
My word for this year has been “Integrate.” As I said in the video: I will continue to draw, paint, model, code, and compose. One activity doesn’t exclude another. I hope you will continue following my journey no matter what I create, and I hope to inspire you in one way or another. In art, we are always heading to an unknown land – you never know what comes up next and how it will change your life! And while we go to new areas, it’s also good to integrate – to save and not abandon – everything we have created so far.
The capacity and possibilities that your brain can conceive absolutely awes me!
Then add your beautiful artwork and you have limitless chances to create a visual world unseen before. Congratulations and please continue 👏🎉❣️
Thanks so much, Lynne!
Päivi, this is so beautiful and moving. Many Congratulations! I am consistently amazed by your work. I’m a nature artist and also teach drawing and watercolour. I work in a very conventional way, and although I can draw things from my imagination, I have always found abstraction and the deeper meanings of art to be very much out of my comfort zone, and to be avoided, until I saw your work. My art is still very much based in realism, but your classes and blog have inspired me very much, and have led me to try new approaches and have more fun in my sketchbooks. This has benefitted me as a teacher too, in how I encourage my students to develop their own unique ways of working. I look forward to your blog post each week, and am currently enjoying taking part in ‘ Colouring Freely’, Thank you so much!
Thanks so much, Jules! It’s so wonderful to read about your background and how you have moved towards freer expression!
I can’t think of anyone else so perfect for this challenge. And to think what would have happened if you hadn’t become friends with your coloring crayons and pencils in the beginning. I’m so happy for you and this adventure AND for sharing something totally unknown to me so I can enjoy it also. You are special!
Thanks so much, Mary!