In 2005, painter Scott Prior came to Zea Mays Printmaking with an intriguing project. He wanted to create editions of prints based on a number of his paintings. He wanted them to capture the spirit of the paintings, without being reproductions.
Scott had significant digital skills and came up with an innovative approach. We would color separate images of his paintings in Photoshop and then digitally print just the color fields, leaving out all of the line and tonal work. He then laid a piece of frosted Mylar over the color fields and did pencil drawings of the images full of line and value. We made photopolymer plates from the pencil drawings and printed these on top of freshly printed digital color prints. The results were a beautiful combination of the digital color and hand drawn line work.
“Dunes at Sunrise,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 15” x 12”
Support: 22” x 17.5” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Cups in Sunlight,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 8.5” x 8”
Support: 15” x 13” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Cow,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 12” x 10”
Support: 18” x 14” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Ezra and Max,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 6.5” x 6”
Support: 13” x 11” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Pumpkins,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 8.5” x 8”
Support: 15.5” x 13” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
In process – the pigment print and the pencil drawing that was soon to become the photopolymer intaglio plate.
“Snowman,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 12” x 10.5”
Support: 18” x 14.5” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Red Pears,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 13.5” x 13”
Support: 20” x 18”
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Woods at Sunrise,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 16” x 8”
Support: 22.25” x 13” paper Hanemeuhle Copperplate
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline
“Nanny Napping,” photopolymer intaglio and pigment print
Image: 11” x 16.25”
Support: 17.5” x 21.5”
Printer(s) Liz Chalfin, OJ Kline