How does one get a movie on a YouTube channel? That was my goal this spring, after a suggestion was made in a critique by a visiting artist.

In collaboration with a digital artist, Julie has converted a long sequence of small paintings to two digital movies you can now view on YouTube.

JulieEnglandArt can be seen on Julie’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQD7p4cUd-7GicKMdyYgBpg

My inspiration was the abstract gestures I witnessed in Helen Frankenthaler’s Abstract Expressionism. Next, I created two short digital movies from the artwork series. As I saw the thirty abstract images in the series, I realized it was like two personalities responding in their unique ways to Swan Lake II, each telling the other in their particular manner what mattered the most to them in their own voice. I also painted two, large-scale characters that evolved from my reaction in a series of artworks in response to Helen Frankenthaler’s Swan Lake II (see Extrovert and Introvert).

The painting-in-a-sequence process was very eye opening as I related to a an abstract expressionism masterpiece. The mark-making and limited palette added to the quality of the images. The ‘rule’ to relate each subsequent image to the prior added to the new creativity.

My painting is inspired by the energy of human nature and how people relate to their natural environment. My attraction to natural, organic imagery is complemented with a focus on the act of painting itself with emphasis on brush work and color.

Likewise, collaborating with a digital artist who specializes in coding art through his computer science perspective was beneficial. His ideas on how to present the art in a digital movie blended with my point of view was a positive experience.

If you like the digital videos, please let me know.

I have the beginnings of another movie art sequence where the subject will be abstract landscapes. I am excited about the format of digital art movies and the added dimension this brings to my creativity.