Digital prints 01
 
P. John Burden - Artist
Painter - Printmaker - Illustrator
RR3  Hunter River
PEI, Canada, C0A 1N0
(902) 964 - 2853

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Some Digital   prints :
These pictures are created  on the computer. I work with a graphics tablet (electronic pencil) mostly in Adobe Photoshop.
Sometimes I may import portions - that I have done on paper or canvas - into the digital file.
The pictures are expertly printed (archival inks and paper), and matted and framed.
Before the matting and framing, I carefully inspect each print and sign them with their edition number (for limited editions).

I have been asked to clarify my position on giclée printed editions:
I only do artist's prints.
By that I mean prints that are created to be that alone, prints.
The original has to be  created on a copper plate, a slab of stone, an electronic file, a slice of genetically modified potatoe, &etc.
If the original is chosen to be done as an electronic file, I think that file should be treated the same way as a copper plate, or whatever, and in the case of a limited edition, destroyed when said edition is completed.
I do not do reproduction editions (limited or otherwise) of my paintings or drawings.
Giclée printing has enabled many artists to sell reproductions of their existing paintings.
That is up to them - I don't.
(There are exceptions, I do mini posters and note cards which show a much reduced detail from a painting, I do not feel these can any way be confused with the original.)

 
 Great Blue Heron on Prince Edward Island  , plus detail



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Blue Jay and Lighthouse on PEI , plus detail
(BlueJay is the "Island Bird")



 Island Farm, plus detail  



Table for Two , with detail
(This is a reworked version of the picture I did 
for the MacQuarries in the Island Magazine. 
Some will recognise the cottage cheese container) 



Plowing at Orwell Corner PEI , and detail
(In a field adjacent to Orwell Corner Historic Village, 
now happily haunted by good friend Wendell Boyle)

The five prints above are open (unlimited) editions
- all of Prince Edward Island where I live.

And so is this fellow.
An open edition of my interpretation of the Greenman


and here is my tribute to Milton Acorn
He was a man despised by many, until he died. 
Then he got very popular
He is, you see, a great Canadian poet

Limited edition of 100 prints.
 




Mother/Soldier. About 19"x14"
Limited edition of 50 prints.
This means much to me and will try to be doing more along this line.




Woman Crucified. About 19"x14"
Limited edition of 50 prints.
The second of a planned series about  civilians (especially  mothers) in war




You can see how the above two prints grew out from an original work
I somewhat hastily put together to illustrate Bernie Wilson's poem.





This fellow, supposed to look like Bob Dylan
(inspired by his song: Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts),
was my contribution to a pack of playing cards.
Each card designed by a different artist.
Sadly nothing has yet come of it.