Zitat des Tages von Buffy Sainte-Marie:
When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
For me, the hip word is 'mutate.' We're ripening all the time.
When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.
I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.
I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.