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After much study, experimentation, and, in the beginning, lots of just plain plug-ugly images staring back at me from the computer screen, I began to slog my way out of The Nether Regions of Talent(some might say I've yet to begin that journey...). What emerged were images that combined photography and painting, but in a manner very different from previously conceived styles of painting on photographs. They have been, in the years since I began creating them, an amalgam that I call "Photo Impressionism", as the painting element pays homage to a style I admire. Their unique quality has been acknowledged in six separate articles in national magazine media, and the name is, also, I hope, descriptive enough for those who have not seen my work to derive an inkling of its appearance. Some images are first created as watercolor paintings, scanned, imported to my computer, then printed as a 30 x 40 image on watercolor paper; then re-painted on, rephotographed, rescanned, and reentered into the computer. The images may enter and exit the computer 5 or 6 times with changes in each iteration by paint and computer. Finally, the image is color corrected in my computer, and printed in limited editions as gicleés(a word borrowed from French, meaning "sprayed", and describing how the high tech inkjet printers lay down their inks). Some images start as slides, then are scanned, output as a 30 x 40 print, painted on with watercolor, and the above process ensues. All elements in each image are created solely by me, and each image may combine fragments of separate photographs and paintings that I have created during my career. And as the "originals" reside in the computer as high resolution graphics files, each print in the limited edition can be sized to specification up to 38 x 84 and printed with archival ink on canvas or watercolor paper.
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