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Graphic artist David Foatar uaaa a portable atudio In a Volkswagen but lo create computer
landscape paintings. His work will be on display through Nov. >5 at the LaVeme Krause Gallery In
Room tot Lawrence Hall.
Artist creates paintings bit by bit
By Karen Engeis
EmarakJ Contributor
Graphic art is? David Foster
speaks with pixel* rather than
paintbrushes in his computer
landscape paintings, now on
display at dm LaVerne Krause
Gallery in Room 101 Law
tenet) Hall
Foster, 07. a University pro
lessor emeritus, creates his
lands* apes by using a compu
ter. a stylus and a computer
graphics tablet This wouldn't
be unusual except that he
doe-, most of his work while
sitting in his Volkswagen bus,
sliding door open, gazing out
and graphically reproducing
the Oregon scenery ho loves
The colorful results, which
he adjusts and prints ujain ar
rival at home, resemble wa
tercolors, silk screens and col
ored sand layered in a jar
Many of his works portray
small towns such as Sumpter,
and landscapes such as
Christmas Valley and the
Blue Mountains in Eastern
Oregon
Foster uses ii program
which gives turn <i choice of
250 colors from a computer
palette, but cun use only H»
colors in any given work
"Mv crayota box has gone
from eight crayons In grade
school to 1 O ’* he said.
l’osltir, who headed the De
partment of Fine and Applied
Arts from 1'17H to 1'ifO, intro
duced the first computer to
the department in 1t)77, when
he taught graphics With a
desk bound computer, he did
most of his work at home, but
then "1 got curious atwiut get
ting nut in the sticks with the
computer
The decision to put his stu
dio on wheels wasn’t a new
concept for Foster While in
high school, he tore the back
seat out of his 1929 Plym
outh In that comfortable ha
ven, he made on arts studio of
sorts, where he sketched Lat
er, he explored the state on
his motorcycle with sketch
pad and pens, ready to draw
His VW bus. whit h is more
technically advanced than
both of his previous "stu
dios." is a "return to early
days of youth." Foster said "!
guess I'm a perpetual adoles
cent. still searching.”
Foster's VVV studio bus
been refined over time. Told
at first that using bis compu
ter outdoors on a generator
wouldn’t work, Foster persist
ed and finally found a Honda
portable gas-powered gener
ator that did. It now rests
comfortably affixed to the
front bumper. To protect his
delicate equipment, he has
mounted his computer and
monitor on inner tubes where
they "float” above the bumps
of the road.
"Lots of people are doing
computer graphics," Foster
said. "I'm one of the few cra
zy enough to drag myself out
in the woods. That's the dif
ference."
The show will continue
through Nov 15 Admission
is free. Gallery hours are 10
a m. to 4:30 p m Monday
through Thursday and 10
a m to 3 p m Friday
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