Yes, it’s been a painstaking decision. And to everyone who weighed in….Thanks! 🙂 It came down to 3 prints for me. In the end I ran all three on Breathing Color’s new Vibrance Rag. I had to see them in …
Death by a million paper cuts…..
Well, in this case, death by a million pixels. Actually several million pixels is more accurate. Clients dropped off an original small snap shot last Friday and I started into it. Pretty clean photo to be honest. And if I …
Running another big George Molnar canvas!
One thing I can say about George Molnar is that he does really BIG canvases. This weekend George let me know that we’ll be needing another “On Top of the World” canvas. So, even though the gallery is closed today …
Breathing Color’s Vibrance Rag….or….Contests hurt my brain
There was a special treat in my inbox recently. Breathing Color has announced a contest for their customers (you can check it out on their blog). You get to submit 1 print, 12×18″, on one of the “newest” papers. Vibrance …
What’s coming up for 2011? Well, some big changes
Change #1? I will be getting out of the gallery business. What? Seriously Rich, out of the gallery business? What are you going to do? Well, here’s the short answer. I’ll continue doing Giclee Print services, I’ll continue to sell …
Dear Costco….thanks for the print business
Today a semi-regular customer popped in for some prints. She’d been to Costco for some “quickie” prints of smaller pieces and found herself more than a little disappointed. The photos were of her daughter. A lovely young lady full of …
Calibration Day!
Okay, I think I’ve just made up a new holiday or something. See, my entire morning was spent calibrating! New print heads, new inks, and not in one printer, but two! And when you swap heads or inks guess what …
Just a few things to do this morning…..Translation….my oh my I’m busy today!
At it bright and early this morning. A good deal to do. Several paintings to shoot, and then found I was dissatisfied with my results so had to re-shoot. We’ll see what I think of the results shortly. On top …
Cleaning up from a positive film scan – Another step in painting reproductions
Recently I posted about part of the process in creating reproductions of paintings. Today we’re going to talk about another part of the process. Positive film scans Often painters have their large paintings photographed on 4×5 positive film. My partner …