A huge fan of TV artist Bob Ross, who for years created pieces of art for The Joy of Painting, Yoneda is fascinated by the way the artist would “almost automatically finish his pieces every 30 minutes,” and set out to replicate Ross’ work with code. It’s been quite a challenge. He quickly mastered the way colors bleed and run into each other, but making that appear like it was happening on paper proved far trickier. Yoneda studied the way that watercolors dry and fix to the canvas or paper, and looked at the methods other digital artists (such as Harold Cohen and Erik Natzke) utilized to overcome similar hurdles. The trick, Yoneda tells us, is to make the medium invisible, so the viewer stops being amazed by the process and can focus on the art itself. He believes he now has the formula for creating watercolors.
via The Verge
