Emily Ho
(she/her) [BEd concurrent with a focus in Fine Arts, 3rd year]
I am primarily a digital artist, briefly experimenting with oil paint during my time in the BFA program at UofC. In my digital art and illustration practice, I touch upon internet culture and the use of digital effects. In this period of primarily using traditional media, I explore the effects of translating digital effects and media into a physical art-making process.
Dog Over Food Bowl, Oil on gessoed watercolour paper, 11" x 14", 2026.
Dog Over Food Bowl, 2026.
Dog Over Food Bowl is an oil painting derived from a photo heavily digitally edited to be “deep-fried,” with increased saturation and contrast, bringing out hidden, arbitrary colours. I attempted to translate the digital effects using oil paint. While oil paint possesses its own properties unique from digital media, through this piece, I found a middle ground between digital and traditional effects. Though the colours are unnatural, I attempted to make the eyes feel “alive” to bring back that realism—with some influences from analogue horror.