Jeremy Sutton, a master digital artist for more than 2 decades, has been using Corel’s Painter Freestyle Beta application for Leap Motion to explore new ways to make art. See how Leap Motion and Corel gives him a wide-open canvas and endless inspiration:

We met Jeremy in Austin, TX back in March during SXSW. He joined us for 3 days at the Leap Motion Experience to demonstrate the new ways he creates art with Leap Motion.

It’s been a couple of months since then, so we checked back in this week with 5 questions for Jeremy:

Why do you enjoy using Leap Motion to create art?

I love both the feel and results of painting in the air with the combination of Leap Motion and Corel Painter Freestyle Beta — it’s like none other. It’s very relaxing and enjoyable to be fluidly moving my hands and fingers through the air to create and control my brush strokes on my digital canvas. It feels like being a dancer, conductor, and magician all wrapped up in one. The results, some of which you can see at http://www.paintboxtv.com/air-painting/ , have a unique, wonderful, and playful quality of line that is different to anything else created in any other medium — digital or traditional. I can still get as much fine detail as I want, but combined with the looseness and serendipity of the 3D motion of my fingers in the air. Painting with Leap Motion really fulfills Arthur C. Clarke’s famous third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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