About The Artist:
James Carter
James Carter, the contemporary American artist combines the dream images of surrealism with the techniques of super-realism to create stilllifes with distinctly American roots. His acrylic with airbrush paintings and his serigraphs give us a fresh view of familiar situations. Carter points to diverse and highly personal influences. As a child, he watched his grandfather, Ridley Carter, the noted wildlife watercolorist at work, and admired his...
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About The Medium:
Prints
Unlike paintings or drawings, prints generally exist in multiple examples. They are created by drawing a composition not directly on paper but on another surface, called a matrix, and then, by various techniques, printing that image on paper. Those techniques may involve the use of one or another kind of printing press and ink, or the image may be transferred by pressing the paper by hand onto the ink surface of the matrix and rubbing. Multiple impressions are made by printing new pieces of paper from the matrix in the same way. The total number of impressions an artist decides to make for any one image is called an edition. In modern times each impression in an edition is signed and numbered by the artist, but this is a relatively recent practice becoming more common practice in the 1960s.