Digital Pattern Surfaces

Continuing with my textural surfaces theme, these digital patterns have been created from natural and constructed textural surfaces.

Digital Print on Lutradur

This weeks textural surface is created with a digital print on a light weight lutradur.  The print is then heat distressed, torn, layered and assembled with beads.  The individual pieces are woven into crochet hemp and brass wire is wound around some pieces of the hemp.

Textural Surfaces Finished

The finish of a textural piece show here is created with crocheted hemp, brass wire and twigs assembled to a digital print on finely woven mesh mounted on hardware cloth. The composition of this piece changed from earlier in the week with a base of printed wire mesh added and some other planned elements not used. 

Textural Surfaces

Last year I received an artist project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. My project, "Expanding the Digital Print to Uncommon Surfaces" inspired me beyond the scope of my project.  As the year developed, my printing techniques grew along with the textures constructed from digital prints on a myriad of inventive surfaces.  My work brought me to creating more and more textural surfaces from both digitals and other elements to be included in the various compositions of my art.

Textures are abundant in the environment of the forests that inspire my work. There are zillions of ways to manipulate textures in digital images and in the construction of printed assembled alternative surfaces.  In the weeks to come, textures will be the subject on this blog.  There will be new textures posted every week.  This week starts with a work in process and will end with the piece finished.

Digital print on wood veneer 

and cut strips of hemp to attach the 

print to the main composition.

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