Photographer
Jan Doucette, took the photograph of a Romanian flower seller.The
celestial map came from Planet Art's copyright-free CD, Maps.
Working
in the software program Painter, Krause combined the two images by
layering them together. (left) Krause used a process called "cloning"
to create a copy of the image. She filled the clone with a sandstone
color and then applied a texture which embossed the image into surface.
(right)
Because
the embossed sandstone surface was linked to the original, she "cloned"
the face and some of the details back into the copy. The final digital
file ready for printing is shown on the right.
A
loosely woven linen was coated with gesso and modeling paste then
rolled to create surface cracks. An Alpha Merics Spectrum, which
prints on any surface up to 3/4" thick, printed the image with hot
wax that dries on contact. The
linen was glued to a textured plywood surface and the area surrounding
the printed digital image was further textured with modeling paste
and painted with metallic pigment. Gold leaf was added to the celestial
"halo".
