Light painting as a means of painterly expression

With the development of light-sensitive chemicals in 18th century and the primitive examples of camera by the first half of 19th century, light has become "catchable". This development had a role in changing the perception of light and through technology that is cable of catching light, giving/creating form with light had a chance to be a subject for art. While photography and cinema technology allow this with unconventional methods, artists who want to take advantage of this new material and wish to have control over form as much as in traditional/conventional paints/paintings have tried to use light as paint and photography film as canvas. Light painting which began to be called with many different names, wanted to be popularized with artists like Picasso and Matisse yet not even Picasso's light (!) was enough to spread the technique which compared to painting with an invisible paint to an invisible canvas by light painting artists. As to age of digital photography, it ascends light painting to a new era which can be said that memorized by many as a photography trick. After film era (analogue era), digital era became a "savior" which shortens the time that light painting left invisible. Compared to almost one and a half century ago, richness of electrical light sources seen in 21st century, turned this "area" which is not yet decided to be a discipline or technique to a pile that turns light, time and movement to form while being not defined and not recognized. The research tried to explain this pile as much as possible and tried to analysis the light paintings which often mixed with this eras trickster/cheater Photoshop. The idea of using light painting as a form of painterly expression predominantly analyzed in perspective of its capabilities to create form and evaluated by stylistic effects and its application methods. According to these evaluation and analysis, light painting defended as it can be a method to do paintings.