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Day Scene - digital painting and art prints - 2006 - Dan Beck

Yesterday’s article discussed tackling of similar problems in new ways and the general creation of this piece above.

Today, I hope to talk about it from a different angle. But like the previous article, I will be looking to take on a topic I have touched on before.

The art prints from this digital painting are special in several ways:

1. they fill the 13×19" sheet of watercolor paper - leaving a very tiny margin of white
2. they look complete at the 13×19" size, but also look enhanced when printed larger
3. they are printed with archival pigment inks and will last for generations
4. each print is an original - as it is not practical to frame the digital image
5. each print has color, depth, and texture which surpasses the digital image.

If you have interest in this piece or any others on the blogsite, please email specialorders@outhousestudios.net and indicate the artwork of interest.  Thanks.

See Also

• Experimental Fields
  Options for art prints - would be similar to work above
• PCWorld.com - A Photo Printer for Generations
  Admittedly an old article, but ink longevity has not been surpassed - results compare to newer ultra-chrome inks

Perspective, peripheral vision and painting combine for archival art prints

Longfield - Digital Painting & Art Print - 2005

The perspective in this piece is not particularly tricky, but it works well. Your eye can’t help but move back towards the right corner while taking in the mountains almost as though they were in your peripheral vision.

This was a glance, I was driving - I could only look back quickly. As a result I suppose the way I chose to represent the fields and the accompanying texture was much looser.

From a printing standpoint, I must confess I have only printed this as large as the in-house printer allows but the results were excellent and as you can get a sense from the details of the piece - it will be that much better larger.

These works are printed using archival inks. The image was painted on the computer and each print is an original art print…exactly as it was intended.

See Also

• Art Print Options for Longfield
  Gallery page - enlarge/details - also should lead to different sizes of art prints, framed or not, flexibiltiy in original work
• Archival-Prints
  Offers info about quality of printing used at Outhouse Studios as well