Experimental Printmaking Process
Krause Studio, Marshfield Hills, MA

A brief look at the process of creating "Lady of the Flowers"

"Lady of the Flowers"
44 x 39 inches(112 x 98 cm)
© Dorothy Simpson Krause 1996

Dot's process images

Photographer Jan Doucette, took the photograph of a Romanian Flower seller and the celestial map came from Planet Art's copyright-free CD, Maps. Working in the software program Painter, Krause combined the two images by layering them together. (above, upper middle) Krause used a process called "cloning" to create a copy of the image. She filled the clone with a sandstone color and then applied a texture which embossed the image into surface (above, upper right). Because the embossed sandstone surface was linked to the original, she "cloned" the face and some of the details back into the copy. The final digital file ready for printing is shown above, lower right.

Dot's process images

A loosely woven linen was coated with gesso and rolled to created surface cracks. After printing, the linen was glued to a plywood surface and the surrounding area was further textured with modeling paste and painted with metallic pigment. A 4" x 5" transparency was taken and scanned back in to the computer for further manipulation. The "final" print was done on a textured substrate. After printing, gold leaf was added to the celestial "halo".

 

 

 

 

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