Siggi Eggertsson - Berlin, En Plein Air: TV Tower

Siggi Eggertsson is an Icelandic artist and illustrator who lives in Berlin. He works extensively with vector images, creating choppy, graphic drawings that reference early computer graphics while retaining a lively organic quality. His subtle use of gradients and unusual colours is especially evident in his In Plein Air series.

From his interview with Computer Arts magazine:

“I got really into the paintings of romantic impressionists, who took their canvases and paint outside, and painted what they saw – mountains, flowers and other imagery like that. I decided to modernise this method, taking my canvas – that is my computer – outside and drawing everything I could see in front of me directly into it. I’m not sure how long everything took, perhaps seven or eight hours, but I had to go back inside in-between times to charge the battery. I used Illustrator while I was drawing the image, and the colouring was done in Photoshop.”

Eggertsson also experiments with video art: see A Growing Pile of Work and Supernova.