| Alvey
Jones
Alvey Jones produces limited edition, hand-bound books composed of delightful
original images and text and assembled on the computer. The digital
technology allows him to print the editions on a variety of papers and
in a wide range of sizes. Several of the two dozen or more books that
Jones has produced have been purchased by and added to the
Special Collections Library housed within the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library at the University of Michigan.
In addition to his use of the computer in producing his books, Jones often
scans in original art of his own, created in watercolor, oil, or acrylic, and
manipulates it with Adobe Photoshop. These manipulated and enhanced
images may later be printed on exotic papers, wood, cloth, metal or even
acrylic emulsion and combined with other materials to create whole new
finished works of art.
Barbara Brown
Working primarily from her own traditional prints, monoprints, collages,
photographs and hand-made papers, Ms. Brown scans images into her
computer, altering, layering and reworking them to create whole
new images. Once printed, she works back into them with colored
pencil or more collage to create finished 2D mixed media artworks or her
own one-of-a-kind papers to be used in the creation of hand-made books.
Ms. Brown teaches bookbinding at Hollander’s School of Bookbinding
in Ann Arbor and at the Rudolf Steiner High School.
Lynda Cole
Lynda Cole uses Adobe Photoshop to make original art using nothing but
her Macintosh G4 Laptop computer and her finger on the track pad. Each
mark is made digitally without the use of scans or photography.
Ms. Cole says of her particular technique, "I start with a blank
computer screen and work from there. I use probably 20 different
tools and recombining techniques repeating them over and over. Occasionally
I use other software, principally Creature House Expressions or Corel
Painter".
Printing on rag paper and using a wide format professional printer, Ms.
Cole is currently producing 23" x 23" prints in editions
of 25.
Michelle A. Hegyi
Michelle A. Hegyi mastered the computer as a mathematician and computer
scientist before she turned it into a successful tool for her art. Working
directly on her computer, using a tablet and software designed to simulate
natural brushstrokes, she overlays color over color, drawing into and
erasing away much as she does in her traditional paintings, showing the
work of the hand instead of the computer. When she is satisfied with the
final design of the piece, the digital painting is archivally printed
by the artist in small editions using pigmented inks on heavyweight 100%
rag paper. Her digital painting informs her acrylic paintings and
vice versa. She is now exploring combining her digital work with
the luminosity of encaustic painting.
Hegyi’s talent on the computer allows her to add the versatility
of this new technology incorporating amazingly subtle colors and transparencies
into her vibrant textures and brushstrokes.
Martha Rock Keller
Martha Rock Keller has recently added the use of the computer to
the tools in her already overflowing paint box. Well
known in the Ann Arbor area as an amazingly versatile artist, Ms
Keller is delighting in the ability to experiment with the Corel Painter
program to change, rearrange, and reinvent her drawings and paintings
in new and creative ways. Often starting with a slice or detail
of one of her own large acrylic paintings, Keller scans, stretches, overturns
and changes the images to create startling and exciting new digital prints.
She especially appreciates the computer’s ability to change the
color in whole areas while retaining and saving earlier versions sometimes
resulting in a whole series of varying prints on the same theme.
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