2-Dimensional Artwork
This month's featured selections ...
Giclee
Artist: Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki
Title: "Field Hockey"
Focus: Sport — Field Hockey
Giclee is French for "sprayed ink." This is a sophisticated printmaking process, today it is typically produced on an IRIS ink-jet printer, which is capable of producing millions of colors using continuous tone technology. They should be printed on a fine fabric or an archival quality paper. Following the printing process, a final, thin transparent coating is applied for maximum permanence.
Lithograph
Artist: Frank Steiner
Title: "Bob Sled"
Focus: Event/Sport — USA Olympic Bobsledding
Lithography is a printing process in which a design is sketched with an oily crayon on a porous stone surface. The idea behind the technique is that water and oil don't mix. When the stone surface is dampened and inked, the lithograph is run through the press. The ink sticks to the crayon and is then printed onto paper. A lithograph looks more like a drawing, with loose grainy line, than a woodcut, which has sharp incisions.
Oil on Canvas
Artist: Stanley Silver
Title: "Olympic Glory"
Focus: Sport — Olympic Discus
Slow drying paint is made when pigments are mixed with an oil, linseed oil being most traditional. The oil dries with a hard film and the brightness of the colors is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and are traditionally used on canvas. Oils are one of the great classic media, and have dominated painting for five hundred years. They remain popular for many reasons: their great versatility, the possibility of transparency and opacity in the same painting, the lack of color change when the painting dries and the ease of manipulation.
Photography
Artist: Robert Riger
Title: "Off The Blocks"
Focus: Event — 1992 Barcelona Olympics Swimming
Print
Artist: Chris Hamilton
Title: "Wheelchair Racing"
Focus: Sport — Paralympic Wheelchair Racing
Serigraph
Artist: Paul Goodnight
Title: "Feet Don't Fail Me Now"
Focus: Sport — Sprinting
Serigraphy is a color stencil printing process in which a special paint is forced through a fine screen onto the paper beneath. Areas that do not print are blocked with photosensitive emulsion that has been exposed with high intensity arc lights. A squeegee is pulled from back to front, producing a direct transfer of the image from screen to paper. A separate stencil is required for each color and one hundred colors or more may be necessary to achieve the desired effect. A serigraph, also referred to as a screen print, differs from other graphics in that its color is made up of paint films rather than printing ink stains.
Sketch/Drawing
Artist: Bart Forbes
Title: "Martina Navratilova"
Focus: Portrait
Watercolor
Artist: Gerry Weintraub
Title: "Windansea Surfer"
Focus: Sport — Surfing
This is a painting medium in which the binder is gum Arabic. Water is used for thinning, lightening or mixing.
