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Made For Wood

I’m new to the digital art team here at Classic Graphics, and have just started to add to the collection. I created this my first week in the studio, during my off time from production training. That week I got more than enough practice printing on paper, metal and acrylic, but wood was the one media I was left to experiment with on my own.

Since my taste combines the raw materials of an

Creating Hand Carved Aluminum Prints

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It seems like a simple idea to create a unique texture on aluminum surface to complement the image you want to print on it, but it can turn into many hours of concentration and devotion to get the exact depth, natural texture and feel. This process, in its nature is more like painting with the only difference – your “brush” (dremel) is much heavier and those “strokes” take some effort and time to place. Dealing with aluminum is very rewarding, soft metal is perfect in it’s silver color and metallic shine. Like everything new it starts as an idea deep inside a head, kind of like a dream, you see it, feel it, but when you’re trying to breath life into it, you realize that it is still a bit blurry and requires more thinking, more planing. Continue Reading