Magician Series Of Paintings
Part of a series of paintings called the Magician. The hero of the paintings references a paparazzi photographer from the 1930s known as Weegree who had an uncanny ability to find and photograph a crime scene sometimes even before the police arrived.
Magician Painting Collection By Doug Kemp
The Magician. Acrylic painting on paper & canvas from the 1990s collection.
Better known as Weegee (his professional name, after an Ouija board), his actual name was Usher Fellig.
It turned out that he actually had his radio tuned to the police frequency. His voyeuristic photographs exposed the underbelly of New York City, mixing popular culture with the experience of immigrants and the working classes, catching the attention of both the news media and the fine art community.
“To me, a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.” Weegee.
The magician
The magician – Acrylic painting on paper, painted in the 1990s. Learn more about the magician/weegee in the video below.
The magician V2
The Magician. V2. 122 x 91 cm Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s collection. Just like that.
The magician V3
The Magician,V3. 168 x 152 cm Acrylic painting on canvas
The Magician V4
The Magician,V4. 114 x 127 cm Acrylic painting on canvas from the 2000s collection
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Giclee Artist Prints
Spelt correctly Giclée is a French word for little squirt. This is a digital printing process in which a type of ink-jet printer is used with specialist inks to produce a high quality Art print. As an artist, I feel a Giclee/Giclée print produces a better finish than other types of modern artist printing formats.
Linocut Artist Prints
A Linocut is a relief print that is produced like a woodcut but uses lino as the surface from which the design is carved as a template used for the printing. In making a Linocut, basically your design uses the raised (uncarved) areas for the different inks to print the same picture over and over.
Silkscreen Print Collection
Creating screen prints – The inks are forced through a mesh screen onto the printed surface. This enables certain areas of the screen template to be impervious to the printing ink, in effect creating a stencil. The ink that is able to pass through forms the printed image.
Print Gallery Fly Through Video – 1 of 2
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