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image fits watercolor paper by design - gives unique look

photo of Art Print from digital painting Mound 2 Mountains

This is a photo of a 13 x 19 inch print of my most recent digital painting. I wanted to show how it fills the page. The size of the digital painting was designed to fit this size paper with the smallest margin possible on the Outhouse Studios in house printer.

It curves in because the camera wasn’t perfectly centered - I didn’t take the proper time on this one - sorry. But nevertheless, I think it gives an idea of how a print can look. I think the thin border of white is actually pretty cool and shows off the uniqueness of the digital medium.

For art prints of this digital painting, please email: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

See Also

• Field 2 Mountain
  Name and composition reminds me of this piece
• Sanford & A Lifetime of Color’s Art Education Resources
  Why the photo of the art print is not square

new guide might help you find what you are looking for

Screen shot of Google image search

If you do image searches, or any search for that matter, on the internet - you might click on that image or page and find what you are looking for -missing.

With documents - looking at a cached version will often help you to find what you were originally looking for in your search.

But images can be more illusive - the image can usually be looked at individually - but finding its context - good luck.

With that said - this blogsite now has a guide by images of the digital paintings - allowing one to find the original article even when one arrived here by following an image.

I, of course, think it is a wonderful idea - but am cautiously optimistic that anyone will use it to find the image, article, enlargement, or even buy an art print spotted like this - but I certainly hope so.

See Also

• Blogsite Exclusive Images
  guide is divided into two - These images are only found on Blogsite - not on website at this time
• Images Also Found on Website Proper
  These are images which are found in galleries on Outhouse Studios website and also in articles on Blogsite
• Google Image Search
  In case you are unfamiliar - try your own image search

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