Digital Montages
Flatbed scans of flowers, collaged and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.
Gallery 5
THESE START WITH SCANNED FLOWERS WHICH ARE THEN COMPUTER COLLAGED IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP. They are created digitally through scans of actual objects which are then collaged together on a computer and printed as GICLEE'S at high quality and high resolution on superb CANVAS material, stretched on stretcher bars, and ready to hang. Watercolor Giclee prints are also available.
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.
I prefer to make Giclee prints 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.
Creative Process.
Most of the flowers and other 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.