Comments on: Process Stories: Theater Poster

By: j. shipley photography

j. shipley photography — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:57:40 +0000

scott, you are incredibly gifted. i love seeing your inspiration and processes. westmont is blessed to have you. as was i to learn from you. thanks for what you do. – j.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:31:39 +0000

this turned out really great! nicely done.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:45:51 +0000

Donato does indeed do something very similar, he’s got a whole section on it on his website. He even goes so far as to mount the sealed paper to masonite. I totally appreciate why he does it—he wants to keep the freshness of that first finished sketch and not lose anything in the transfer. But for me, frankly, I’m just too lazy for all that work—the whole point for me is to minimize the effort of getting from the sketch to the paint, and keeping the freshness of the original sketch is just an extra bonus. Maybe I just need to add one more coat of matte medium to keep the paint from sinking in.

As for digitally capturing my work, I use a photographer here in town who specializes in photographing art, and he’s extremely affordable. When I’ve got the budget, though, I’m now a huge fan of Artscans down in L.A. (see my previous process post on my angel poster piece). The very best quality scans I’ve ever seen.

By: tyler

tyler — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:45:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Scott. I haven’t yet tried avoiding the transfer step through digital means but I think Donato Giancolo does something similar and uses three coats of matte medium and sands it smooth in between each coat.

How are you digitally capturing your work these days?

I’ve been scanning parts of mine and assembling in Photoshop (via photo merge) and for that reason I avoid oil because of the drying time (and glare).

By: David Zeggert

David Zeggert — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:27:02 +0000

more great work- you are on a roll-DZ