Ink to Pixel to Ink
I started out as a pen & ink artist, strictly ink to paper. My attraction to the computer became serious with the development of hardware and software that allowed me to work in a manner I’m accustom to while opening up an endless amount of doors for expanding my creativity. Admittedly I spend most of my time on the computer these days, however I’ve repopulated my drawing table with pens and paper and find I’m sliding back and forth from pixels to ink.
My artwork falls into two categories. Original digital art offered up as hi quality prints, and pen & ink on acid free paper. I do not offer prints of my pen & ink work.
The digital art is labeled as digital simply because the computer is the medium I use to generate the artwork. Everything I create digitally is hand-drawn or painted. I work the same as I do with my pen & ink, only a pressure sensitive stylus is my pen, a Wacom Intuos Pro M tablet is my paper, software generates the ink & paint, and an iMac is my easel. The computer does not create the art. However, I sometimes take advantage of its ability to duplicate and arrange large elements I have already drawn.
The original artwork for the prints resides on the Mac as a digital file, just as a photograph resides on the camera of a digital photographer. From there it's all about output. The artwork is output as giclée prints on premium, resin coated luster paper. There are no inferior prints, regardless of size. I print every image myself and every print is a first generation output.