Exhibition for Myself – Print Test Results!

I am regularly rotating the artworks in my personal exhibition for myself!
Currently on display: All the prints hauled from the local print shop recently!

Featuring prints on canvas, metal (aluminum-dibond), acrylic (with and without alu-dibond reenforcement), photo paper.

These are the cabinets behind my work area: The exhibition for myself is both motivating and distracting!

From left to right:

~ Orbital Autumn, digital collage of several code-generated artworks – canvas

~ Reality and Imagination for Real, watercolor pencil drawing – photo

~ Frozen Harmonics, code-generated art – canvas

~ Lissajous Three Four Five, code-generated art – acrylic with alu-dibond backing

~ Balloon Dog Supernova, code-generated art – alu-dibond with matte finish

~ Trapped Bulb, digital freehand drawing – acrylic

~ Lone Black Telephone, pencil drawing digitally inverted – alu-dibond with matte finish

~ Edge of Darkness, digital freehand drawing – alu-dibond with matte finish

~ Lissajous Quadrupole four code-generated artworks stitched together – alu-dibond with matte finish

(Code = JavaScript/threejs. No AI! Digital drawings done on an iPad with Procreate who thankfully refuses to use AI in their product.)

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Here’s what I have learned:

Colors on canvas prints are way more vibrant and saturated than I expected. They show possibly the blackest of all blacks compared to the others. I was positively surprised – despite or because essential parts of the image get wrapped around the frame. The structure of the canvas does not interfere with the fine line of the code-generated images.

Pure white on aluminum-dibond makes you see the bare, reflecting white surface – strikingly different from the rough texture of the material when something (any other color) is printed on it. This works very well for the center of the Balloon Dog Supernova and the white reflections in my crystal drawing (Edge of Darkness). I have mixed feelings about the white quadrant in Lissajous Quadrupole.

I tend to like my drawings best when the print is not larger than the original. Trapped Bulb (digitally drawn on an iPad) and Lone Black Telephone (inverted pencil drawing on A3 paper) are just fine. Pixels / dpi would allow for larger prints, but I do not like extremely blown up pencil lines.

I think small prints work well for my geometric drawings. The photo of my drawing Reality and Imagination For real (with the stand) was a test in lieu of a greeting card.

Metal and acrylic prints are trimmed: A bleed space of fixed width is removed. The smaller a metal or acrylic print is, the larger this “bleed space” is in comparison to the print. Lissajous Quadrupole (20cm width) appears cut a bit too much.

Again and again I notice that bringing digital art into the real worlds makes quite a difference!

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Digital originals (or scanned images) for these prints:

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Other blog posts about print tests:

Acrylic print with alu-dibond backing: Three Four Five – Acrylic Print Test

Canvas prints: Frozen Harmonics – on Canvas!

Metal print and poster: Make It Real (includes also poetry :-))

Acrylic print without backing: Bringing Digital Art into the Real World

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Blog posts about the artworks! Warning: May include poetry!

Orbital Autumn

Reality and Imagination – for Real!

Three Four Five

Balloon Dog Supernova

Light Bulb Trapped in a Science Museum

Negative Art

Reflecting on Reflections

Lissajous Quadrupole

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