“This exhibit explores the idea of creating multiple new artworks from one existing artwork. In my process, I work with a digital scan of a painting and modify it digitally to create a variety of new artworks. I experiment with composition, proportions, movement, rhythm and color, with the intention to create new engaging artworks.
The finished digital art is then printed on textured paper to bring the characteristics of the paint back to life, essentially creating an OFFSPRING of the original.
I like the idea of creating more from one because it reminds me to examine and appreciate what already exists and the potential it has.” - Christina Werkmeister
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HOW IT STARTED
In 2019, Christina Werkmeister was working on a collage made of individual paint strokes. After applying the paint on black paper, she decided to scan them to create a digital mock-up. Christina used the scans in the Instagram Layout app and experimented with rotating, mirroring and replicating these paint strokes to create new images.
BACK TO PAPER
After recreating some of the Instagram posts in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, Christina soon began to work with high resolution scans in order to print on a larger scale. All of her digital artwork is printed on Epson Somerset Velvet, a heavy textured paper, that brings the characteristics and details of the paint back to life.
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