the
process: Combining painting and photography in a digital print
Krause
Studio, Marshfield Hills, MA, 2003
Peninsula,
from the series “Sacred Spaces”, was created by digitally
combining an oil painting on handmade paper with a photograph taken
on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. The painting and photograph
were scanned on the 12” x 20” Mictotek 9800XL scanner
and altered in Adobe Photoshop to create the composite image.
To print the image a custom substrate was created by applying modeling
paste to spunbonded polyster, a dimensionally stable fabric used
for interfacing in garment construction. The textured surface was
coated with metallic pigment and finally with inkAID™, an
inkjet receiver. The image was printed on the Encad 880, a flexible
media printer which prints on substrates up to .5” thick and
60” wide, using the Wasatch SoftRIP and Dupont Fusion inks.
For an added sheen, graphite was rubbed into the dark area at the
bottom of the print. The final print, one of a variant edition of
4, is 24” x 24”.
