Digital BW, The Print

Yes Dan, and there are millions of pieces of "art" hanging on the walls of
offices and homes that were printed using the offset press.

There is nothing wrong with being picky if you have some other way of
supporting yourself. If you need to produce your art so you can eat, then
you have to know when to let it go and sell it.

I for one am quickly learning that I like to eat more than I like to nit
pick my art.

Jim Davis
http://www.visual-artists.com
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Fine art pigment printmaker

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> > Sometimes, as artists and printmakers, I think we are just too damn
picky!
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> > Jim Davis
> > http://www.visual-artists.com
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> I don't know - I started my art dabbling in the early seventies and I
> remember that no *true* artist would ever consider a CMYK offset print to
be
> suitable for art.  Silkscreen and Lithography on fine art paper yes.
Fiber
> backed B&W paper yes, resin no.    Cibachrome - well maybe someday, if it
> turns out to last and you can get it to look more like air dried glossy.
> But plain old vanilla CMYK was a cheapo thing you did for catalogs and
> magazines, not serious work -- except for a small art movement lead by a
few
> New York art types that made mass production and lack of impermanence the
> statement of the art.  So fussiness sure isn't a new phenomenon.
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> For me - I just like to be picky and fussy 'cause that's my nature and I
> don't need or even want art to be a significant source of my income so I
can
> engage in that luxury. Heck, I probably ought to just paint - but that is
so
> low tech don't you know.  Whatever turns your crank and/or pays the bills.
> :-)
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> Dan
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