What is Aabel Gallery ?

Aabel Gallery is an online Shop+Gallery that displays the works of Digital Artist & Designer Jonas Aabel. Born in 1980 in Oslo, Norway, with a masters degree in Industrial Design from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design in 2006, Jonas has been pioneering the transition from physical-based media to the new paradigm of digital drawing and painting tools. With many years of experience working as a designer and illustrator for the marine industry, and coming from a higly artisitc famliy, Jonas started experimenting with a new type of digital"abstract expression" during the 2020 covid lockdowns. Inspired by Artists such as "Peter Zimmerman" from Germany and "Gunnar S. Gundersen" from Norway, Jonas were searching for a style that could combine dynamic shapes, transparency, vivid colors and interesting compositions into unique and highly decorative pictures.

If you want to check out Jonas' marine & industrial design projects, you can click here: www.aabelworks.com

What is Digital Art?

Jonas "paints" the pictures on a large screen using Photoshop software. A high skill level in precision drawing is needed to create perfectly smooth and taut lines by hand. Semi-transparent "glass" like sculptural forms are created using gradient techniqes. Layers with colors and gradients are then added to create interesting compositions and juxtapositions.

The motifs are gradually developed by several rounds of adjustments. The motivation behind this method is to create original pieces of dynamic, abstract, digital art where some of the most interesting visual phenomena occur in intersections between the transparent layers.

Jonas don't use generative algorithms, stock assests or automated effects. Every line, curve and gradient is constructed manually.

The result is stunning, digital art-impossible to achieve trough traditional tools alone.