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Greetings!
Hello and welcome to my art blog! My name is Gunnar Quist and I’m so glad you stopped by. I’ve been a professional artist for over a decade now, specializing in a unique blend of pointillism and pixel art. Art has been a passion of mine since childhood. Lately, I’ve been fascinated with AI generative…
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My First Painting
In my last post, I spoke about my earliest influences in computer art. That medium has fascinated me since I was a kid in the ’70s. However, I was drawing and painting before I saw my first video game. Granted, I was just in kindergarten and my art skills were not great. But ever since…
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A Kid and His Pixels
As I said in my first post, where do I begin? Perhaps it’s best to properly introduce myself and describe some of my backstory. I am in my 50s and so my story could be quite long. So I’ll just focus on my first experiences with computer art. I was born in 1970 in Oak…
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Pantanas
The title of this series is a portmanteau of “pantone” and “fantanas.” The latter a reference to an old soft drink ad campaign. In September 2021 I dived into painting again by experimenting with image processing of nudes, textures, and colors. Although I started with found photos from the internet, it was satisfactory for what…
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Sarah Caryatids
Continuing the ideas from the Pantanas series, I started a new series using photos I had taken in March of 2013. Sarah was my favorite model at the time.
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Becca Firehair
After a hiatus of several years, I returned to painting in 2020. This series, using photos I had taken of Becca in August of 2012, materialized ideas that had been lying dormant for a long time. Bursting forth with burning flame.
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Pixel Abstracts:Series BB
Exhibition at A1 Lab Arts, June 22-24, 2018 In 2016, I was motivated to move in a different direction. So, I tried a new approach that verged on the abstract. I had just seen Bjork perform live and was mesmerized by the crystalline mask she wore on stage that shined like a nimbus under the…
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Pixel Abstracts: Series BB
January 2017 – June 2018
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The Dozen
March 2012 – January 2014 During the first few years of painting in my pixel art style, I experimented quite a bit. One of the first things I learned was that larger paintings afforded more detail. I painted a dozen 40” x 60” paintings. I no longer paint this large unless it is commissioned.
