It was three decades ago when artist Donna Faranda first used a computer to ‘paint' in points, or pointillism, the movement created by 19th century French impressionist Georges Seurat. “I had painted ‘traditionally,' with brush, watercolors, easel and smock, but I felt confined by my small apartment in Brooklyn,” she says. “My husband, Jan Novick, is an IT professional, and he helped me see the potential of painting digitally at a time when home computers were primarily word processors.” Technology and Faranda have both come a long way. “I now use Photoshop to create a montage from images that I have either drawn, scanned or found on the web. From these images,
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