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What
is an original photographic monoprint?
The terms monoprint
and monotype are often confused and are not the same. A monotype
is a print made without a repeatable matrix, while a monoprint
is defined as a unique image where part of the image is repeatable
on a fixed matrix. Further, a monoprint is a print, made by
any printing technique, that the artist later alters by some means,
e.g. by painting with oils, oil sticks and/or acrylics and/or
drawing with pencils, charcoal and/or pastels, making it original,
unique and not reproducible.
Don's
original photographic monoprints begin as a photographic image
captured either digitally or on film. The initial image is altered
using a variety of techniques and printed onto acid free watercolor
paper. The image is further enhanced, using
acrylics, oil sticks, oil pastels, soft pastels, pencils, and/or
charcoal to create a unique work of art: an original photographic
monoprint. Each monoprint is signed and dated by the artist in
pencil. Since each monoprint is unique and original, there are no
limited editions or artist's proofs. A sealed Certificate of
Authenticity accompanies each original photographic monoprint.
The time-consuming process involved in
creating each original photographic monoprint requires the artist's
judgment, skill and command of the many tools needed to complete
each valuable work of art. Each original photographic monoprint is
created personally by the artist, greatly differing from any other
photographic or printing method where limited or open editions are
created in mass by mechanical means, either through photographic
printing or offset lithography.
Due to the limitations of small digital
files, the images on this Web site are only representative of how
each original photographic monoprint will appear in each
individual finished work.
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