PETER EASTMAN

Landscape Prints

The landscapes are Lambda prints mounted on aluminum.

Unless otherwise stated the edition for each landscape is 10 large prints and 10 small prints

Landscape Prints

A personal description of the process of making

I would describe the process of making these pictures as re imaginings of landscapes. There is a photographic inspiration, but the finished landscapes are radically altered from the original image, elements are added and taken away, colors and mood created and enriched. Much like a painting from a photograph.

The image is a drawing that is done on the computer using a mouse as the pen. I am often asked if the image is a manipulation of a photograph, it is not. It is also not a photograph of a painting. The process of using the mouse as pen is extremely basic, there are no effects used.

Initially the image is a line drawing in black, I then add the colors and afterwards delete all the lines so that it ends up as blocks or fields of smooth colors, no gradients. The colors are all mixed by eye, not chosen from a photograph or generated. The whole process is actually very similar to that of making a painting. A practice that I am primarily involved with.

The drawing is done in a vector drawing program which means that there is no pixels or pixilation and the colors end up super flat and vibrant. This is enhanced by the use of the lambda printing process that works exceptionally well in printing flat color. Vector images can be scaled up infinitely without losing resolution of clarity or color.

Peter Eastman, 2009