Digital Art, MS PAINT, Steemit.com and Ascribe.io

Hello Everyone!

I’ve finally decided to sign up to Steemit to share my digital art.

Esqueleto (2017)

Though I have experimented with more sophisticated software in the past in order to achieve more refined results, I have come to enjoy the output that good old MS Paint and its open source equivalent, Paintbrush, provide. Embracing their limited tool set has been instrumental in dictating the aesthetics of all of my work. The outright display of the raster image, as evidenced by the broken diagonals on most of my pieces, is nothing more than an acknowledgement to the digital nature of each piece. Correcting for it would seem disingenuous.

I strongly believe that each of my creations should own the attributes born out of both the basic software it was created in and the extent to how my abilities were able to harness the software’s limitations. I’ve certainly gotten better over time, as you'll see below.

All my work is on Instagram. Feel free to follow me there if you’d like, my handle is Hive account@jusanabart as it is here. However, now that I’ve discovered Steemit, it’s time to see were I can take my digital art publishing next. Besides displaying my work and writing about it, I’d like to experiment with the concept of provenance on digital creations by assigning limited editions to my past and future works and having a COA refer to a signature on the blockchain with the use of ascribe.io. Hopefully it will not only ascribe attribution but value as well, and perhaps have some of my limited edition art pieces become items that can be collected, traded and/or kept to accrue value over time. It’s on the pretentious side, I know, but the idea here is to play around with this newly found degree of freedom that both Steemit and ascribe.io have to offer and be able to run wild with it.

To not pursue experiments like this, however grandiose, is to miss the point of what the future holds. I’m not a blockchain expert, but it seems like the only way to really grasp its possibilities is to dive in and start using the services that are being built on top of it. Especially when they can do so much for what you are passionate about. So here goes nothing. To kick things off I will start by sharing the first piece of my collection from 10 years ago, Ciudad (2007) and my latest piece Body on Wall (2017). Under each piece you’ll find an ascribe.io attribution link. Subsequent blog posts will consists of me sharing one piece at a time with my thoughts on them. My hope is that you enjoy my work and that you accompany me on a journey of discovering what it means to produce digital art in decentralized ecosystems.

Ciudad (2007)
https://www.ascribe.io/app/editions/171Fx5fd4mjWq9vSvTSA59vcSV3Lh45ybZ

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Body on Wall (2017)
https://www.ascribe.io/app/pieces/33408