original art prints and the impression of a situation

Base of the Mountain - digital painting for art prints

Over the weekend, I was looking at some block prints done by high school students in the area and I got to thinking about their process and the definition of a print.  

A print requires a transfer - perhaps an "impression", mold, carving, stone, matrix, etc. to impart an image onto paper or cloth.

In the case of digital art  and the resulting art prints, the digital image - painting in my case, is that "impression". I find this even more apt since so much of my work is from an "impression" I might get from a scene.

Such is the work above. I drove by quickly - glancing back to take in the field workers picking strawberries. It frequently looks like a dance one when one goes by quickly, but I seriously doubt they were having anywhere near the fun of the what I portrayed. In fact, I know better particularly on this "Day without Immigrants".

And though I tout my art prints as being originals(the monitor image can’t practically be hung)- they are impressions of an original scene - and are removed from the original inspiration just as any art might be.

See Also

• Base of the Mountain
  art print options for above work
• WebMuseum: Monet, Claude: Impression: soleil levant
  Impression - some history and examples of the term