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A Digital Aesthetic
Below you will see a chronological explanation of the artist's development
of a digital fine art aesthetic. Even before the technology existed,
there was the desire to work in a style only new technology could
facilitate. As different technologies developed, the style evolved.
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It
wasn't until the year 200 that I felt able to develop a technique
that I considered to be a successful blending of Photoshop, Illustrator,
scanned, digitally photographed and downloaded images to produce
a fine art print.
Method
of work: I have a Nikon Coolpix 950 which was given to me as
a Christmas present on Dec 1999 always with me. I take pictures
everywhere and almost everyday and with these create a photo library
to use for the digital prints. The macro aspect of the camera is
particularly useful. I've become an avid gardener and a collector
of Cuban stamps and ephemera from the colonial era to the present
and these two things are also sources of inspiration and imagery.
I also find much inspiration on my travels to places such
as the American Southwest, Culebra (Puerto Rico), Tuscany,2
garden tours of the southwestern part of England and the Lake District (Cumbria), Northumbria and the Yorkshire Dales, Venice and Bruges. I print on an Epson
2200 and an Epson R2400 with archival pigment inks on archivally safe Epson Enhanced
Matte paper. I presently work (April 2006) on the Mac OS10.4.6 platform in Photoshop CS2 and
Illustrator CS2 and have added a Nikon D70 (a digital SLR) to my photographic equipment.
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to see the complete series or go directly to the Print Catalogue section.
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