Floral Shaped Canvas Montage Works
These are 18"x18" squares with scanned images printed on canvas
in 2 layers with the 2nd layer extended outside the 18" square. See
the detais to get a better impression of the side projections.

Large Floral Shaped Canvas Works
Flowers are scanned, cut into layers, then stretched and glued onto
a specially constructed shaped frame. All these shaped canvases are large,
approximately 48"x48".

Gallery 4

THESE TWO GROUPS ARE SHAPED CANVASES WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF PRINTED IMAGES STRETCHED ON A WOOD STRETCHER FRAME. The intrigue in the first group is the floral object extending beyond the 18" frame edge. For the 2nd group the interest is with the invented shape which exists without a traditional picture edge.

What are Giclee Prints?

A Giclee print is an ART QUALITY PRINT. It is an exceptional high quality ink print made on a high end professional wide format printer by a highly skilled print maker. Materials and inks used are of superior quality and intended to achieve both stunning appearance and excellent display life. Giclee prints are available here on both high quality canvas and watercolor paper.

Creative Process.

Most of the objects I include in my works are initially scanned on a large bed (11x17) flatbed scanner in order to get finer detail and to get a special quality of lighting. I usually scan at higher resolutions to get a 50 to100 Mb image, anticipating making large format Giclee prints. I rarely use digital camera images.

In Photoshop I create the background first, sometimes using images derived from a scan of materials, or of paint on glass, or an abstract background drawn in Photoshop, or occasionally a digital camera image. I then open multiple images from which I select out desired portions which I drag and drop onto the background creating new layers which can be moved, rotated, re-sized, or manipulated in the collage process. Frequently I have somewhere between 10 to 30 layers and the collage process may take several hours or sometimes days.

The construction of the shaped pieces start with the printing out of geometric shaped backgrounds derived from scans of various textures or from digital still images collaged in Photoshop. This is stretched on a 1 1/2" deep wood frame just like a painting. On this is glued other layers of canvas cut outs of flowers some of which extend beyond the frame edge. Wood blocks 1 1/2" deep are attached to support these canvas edge extensions which are then glued down to the wood. After that the visible sides of the wood blocks are painted with acrylic to match the colors and textures of the printed flowers which extend outside the sides of the piece.

Display.

I prefer to make the shaped works on canvas because I believe that in this way they gain more of a physical presence. I also am able to achieve more vivid coloration which is important to me.

Also because the canvas prints are stretched on wood stretcher bars the image surface projects 1 1/2 inches out from the wall plane. Prints come with wire on the back and are ready to hang.