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Darlene Charneco

Altering her surrounding environment, artist Darlene Charneco provides an innovative glimpse into the reality of our lives while delineating differing insertion points that identify our place in the world. Looking both to Hampton Photo, Art and Framingnature and man-made structures, Darlene exposes surprising relationships between memory, perception and the factual elements of our existence to create poetic works that hover between the real and the imaginary.

Altering her surrounding environment, artist Darlene Charneco provide an innovative glimpse into the reality of our lives while delineating differing insertion points that identify our place in the world. Looking both to nature and man-made structures, Darlene exposes surprising relationships between memory, perception and the factual elements of our existence to create poetic works that hover between the real and the imaginary.

Utilizing nails, resin and mixed media on wood, Darlene Charneco’s artworks map the hybrid spaces that we live in. Zeroing in—primarily from an aerial perspective—to focus on cities and roads in an altered and abstracted way the artist references the evolution of digital networks that inform the world today.

By exploring the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism, Charneco draws links to the Internet envisioning it as a growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. Based in Southampton, New York, Charneco has exhibited and guest lectured at numerous museums, galleries, and arts councils including the Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York and the Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York. MAAS Projects is please to exhibit Charneco’s work for the first time in Texas.

 
Canvas Printing

Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print  is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.

 
Art Prints – How are they made?

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Photography by Laurie Barone-Shafer
Nowadays just about anyone can take a good quality photographs with a digital camera. Or take a few hundred pictures and the chances are few will be good, and even one or two outstanding.

Here are a few tips, tricks and techniques on how to make art print poster ready photographs and print ready digital files. Don’t get overwhelmed, there is a lot of information here, but a lot of it is just intuitive. Well, a bit of patience will always help.

First thing – Photo Size

If you taking a digital photo of you family or friend the largest size you would print is usually 5 by 7 inches, maybe 8 by 10 at the most. Even small size digital photographs (2MB or less) are ‘good enough’ to create a decent print. But if you want to create prints that are 16 by 20, 20 by 24 inches or larger you need more pixels (in pixels 20 by 24 inches photo is actually about 40 times larger than 3 by 4 inches photo assuming they have the same resolution).

 
Learning to Paint Watercolors

Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art.  Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes.  Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.

Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough.  Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added.  Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture.  Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.

Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper.  Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper.  Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable.  Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets.  The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.

 
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