Detail of Portrait Study in Blue 3.03.23, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023

This study features a monochromatic figure, painted in blue tones, expressionless, with features that seem to shift and dissolve. For the last couple of years or so, I've been doing a lot of "studies" where I've been experimenting with different methods of combining digital painting with traditional elements within my artistic process. Lately I've been hitting upon a workflow and method that is allowing me to more accurately achieve what is in my head. There is something about this "fracturing" that (to me, at least) is evocative of so many different things.

Detail of Dissonant Harmony in Pink and Cyan, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023

The figure dissolves, or perhaps takes shape, in a distorted cacophony of pink, brown and light magenta hues, against a cyan void. Created with a combination of painted acrylic layers and coffee drips on paper, which were scanned and combined with many digital painted layers at low opacities, slowly building up the form. Multiple variations of "expressive" layers of abstracted elements were interlaced with the figure, some building off of, and distorting the original acrylic layers. These variations were combined, added, and subtracted, eventually creating a final composition.

Work in progress (detail), Artist: Andrew Binder, 2021

Work in progress (detail), Artist: Andrew Binder, 2020

Sketch of Female Bodybuilder, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2020

Sketch, female bodybuilder; Artist: Andrew Binder; 2020