Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A hybrid between photography and painting

Isca Greenfield-Sanders has been one of my favorite artists for YEARS. I love her process.

She starts with a vintage slide, which is printed out as a photograph onto rice paper. Using gouache, colored pencils, and watercolors, this print is painted, pairing down the photographic image to a form of painterly abstraction. After scanning and enlarging this new study, it is printed onto tiles of rice paper, which are laid out on the surface of the canvas, in the form of a grid. Finally, the rice paper is sealed with varnish and the surface is painted with transparent oils.

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