I paint with eggs. Yes I am a painter and my medium of choice is egg tempera. Egg tempera is a paint that is made from mixing the yolk of eggs with dry colored pigments. This is the type of paint that was used for easel painting before the invention of oils. Painting with egg tempera requires a lot of planning. I have to prepare a detailed line drawing, transfer it to my handmade panel, mix my paints and then execute the painting using an iterative approach where I constantly refine edges, colors and values.
As a trained fine artist I never imagined my life as a programmer. My inclination to paint with such a rigid medium, that requires a lot technical precision, reveals a lot about why I pursued programming in the first place – I enjoy the marriage of the visual with the technical.
As Web developer and programmer at KGBTexas I am able to apply that love of art and technology to provide visually beautiful solutions that are also technically robust for our clients. The websites and applications we design and build allow clients to manage their data, run reports and track information while reinforcing their brand identity, promoting a campaign or positioning their product. As in egg tempera painting this all requires planning, structure and an iterative execution. The design and programming must be constantly refined visually and technically to achieve the intended result. Having an in-house team of creatives and techies that can work in concert to achieve this guarantees higher success rates for the projects we tackle.
View the KGBTexas .communications Interactive Portfolio
View Alex Garcia’s Egg Tempera Paintings
Download the Garcia Mobile iPhone app (which I programmed).
