Allison Bell

ALLISON BELL

Allison Bell started with silk painting as her medium. However over time, she didn’t find it as artistically rewarding and it became limiting to her. On impulse she bought a more digital medium to act as her sketchbook. That purchase spurred the 3D tablet purchase sing a mouse is also limiting. She described it as working with infinity and working with it in stretching and expanding the piece slowly. She doesn’t over do it however; she intentionally limits herself to two to three digital tools, mostly Photoshop.

Berneray Bird 2. digital print on silk satin. 2003

Allison, much like the some of the classmates for the post card project, plays with her medium. She tries things our and then decides if she likes it based on how it looks. She makes judgments on the outcome of whether or not it will fit with her piece. She’s constantly curious about new outcomes, if she does this or that, what will happen. Allison will do that for hours on end until she finds her perfect fit. Then she takes puts it on a CD and gets it digitally printed. She says she’s always pleasantly surprised when she gets in back form the printer because its never exactly how she saw in on her screen. If it were me however, I would feel very irritated. That’s the issue where printers are at in this day and age, however, pleasant for some and irritating for others.