Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 1
Last week I was working with Don Messec at his amazing and healthy printmaking studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Don has dedicated the last two decades to making art safer for printmakers and artists. I am a classic example of a printmaker that had been made terribly ill from decades of chemicals, solvents and body-migrating pigments. I went cold turkey about 1993. Luckily, I had been making...
Read MoreThe Darkroom Revisited – version 2
Yesterday, I was in the darkroom with Ilford MultiGrade IV paper, Sprint Chemistry, and Piezography digital-negatives. It was fun and dark. With water running quietly, it seemed quite meditative. Perfect to pass hours. My cell phone has awesome speakers for quiet places and I eventually finished my time listening to old Alvin Ranglin produced singles. Alvin was a record producer in Jamaica...
Read MoreGimme that old time feeling
This winter I have been shooting with a combination of plastic Diana lenses, single element optic lenses, and my prized Zeiss Distagon 21mm ƒ2.8. Shooting with a diana lens makes me feel a bit nostalgic for my photographic education. Even though I owned a Leica M5 and a decent Pentax with interchangeable lenses I had to spend my first year at Ohio University shooting with a plastic Diana camera....
Read MorePiezography Gallery now Online!
This is where you can buy Piezography prints from practioners of the medium. Initially, I am starting with my own work. Soon I will expand the offerings to other Piezographers. All of the prints are produced at Cone Editions Press so that you can be assured of their authenticity. The plan is to offer different sized prints at different prices. Collectors prints will have signatures of the...
Read Moreno substitute for real world testing
There is no substitute for real world testing…like 20 feet of salt water and 3 months in the direct sun! Its been five years since the tragic devistation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, many parts of Lousiana, Alabamba, Georgia and Florida that sustained terrible damage have still not been completely rebuilt. One of my customers discovered in the aftermath that prints made with...
Read MoreA Theory of Two Georges
There is the theory that a few colors can reproduce everything else, and I think of the great French painter Georges Seurat. In the latter part of the 19th century, Seurat painted dots of red, green, blue and other primary colors to recreate nature in our brain. Our eyes fill in most of the complimentary color due to the way human vision works. Pointillism in the years before the 20th century...
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