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Then, a couple years ago, the development lab here at Golden Artist Colors brought some new ink-receptive products to my desk and announced that with these materials and the educational outreach of GOLDEN, all artists could have access to the direct image transfer process.Ĭonsidering these ink-receptive products as part of the larger GOLDEN system of products was an interesting proposition. Until recently, the alchemy of these processes had been limited to a small, but ever widening circle of artists. This book reveals a host of sophisticated techniques that involve multiple layers of printing, painting, and the incorporation of various other mediums and collage elements into the final piece. The printmakers have been on the leading edge of this exploration, as demonstrated in 2004 when Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke, known collectively as Digital Atelier®, wrote a book called, Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials. Finally over a hundred years later, we have created the possibility of joining these two worlds and the exploration has truly just begun.Īrtists have been doing image transfers into acrylics for years, but what if there was a way to make this process cleaner, crisper and give the artist greater control over the marriage of image and acrylic? What if there was a way to move photographs onto surfaces that are totally unique? What if there was a way to re-introduce the idea of individual manipulation of images during the printing process, like the old days of Polaroid prints? I imagine there must have been this same sort of challenge and excitement when the first art photographers realized the possibilities of their new medium and the opening of a new fertile ground they could now explore. Certainly an exciting new linking of real and virtual paint processes.
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Just when I thought I was getting a handle on all the different ways these acrylic tools could be used, I had my eyes opened to a whole new direction through the possible combination of the fine art acrylics and digital transfer technology. For the last five years, in my role as Product Manager at Golden Artist Colors, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and explore an incredible range of materials.