Mark McAfee Brown
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW plants and vegetables using a flatbed scanner until I have the image or portions of an image that I want. In these works I use the scanner as a camera, shooting each“ picture“ from below. Flowers are placed on top of the scanner with the scanner lid left open. I do a large number of scans until I have all of the picture elements I need for an image, depending on what the image, emotion and notion require to bring the picture to life. I then compose the images using Photoshop.
In both of these series I use Photoshop’ s digital painting tools and filters to create my images, and then print them on a large format Epson 4880, 8 color archival inkjet printer. I do all of my own matting and framing for art shows. Your exploration of the notion of landscape as a terrain that can be