The Art of K

The Art of K: The Digital Art of Karl Hiesterman

I create these pieces digitally with the Photoshop software package. I use polygons of color as my "brushstrokes"; if you look closely you’ll see that each one is what I like to call an "organic triangle", that is, a simple triangle stretched and distorted. But I don’t paint with these brushstrokes per se; I paint with the white space, using the color to define, delineate, and shape the white of the paper into the image. I paint the shadows and curves, thereby painting the subject herself.