UPDATE: Susan Barmon’s Botanical Scans Now on Etsy!
Back in November, I wrote a post about a digital artist, Susan Barmon, who’s producing gorgeous botanical prints with her scanner.
The good news is this: Susan is now selling a selection of smaller prints in her Etsy shop, and everything is under $50, including shipping!
You can see my original post here in its entirety, but let me also give you a quick excerpt of what I wrote:
Digital artist Susan Barmon produces breathtaking botanical prints like this on a flatbed scanner – the same kind you probably have in your home office. She has painstakingly pioneered the process herself, building little scaffolds out of Tinkertoys so she can arrange flowers in multiple layers on the scanner bed.
Each scan can take Susan hours to arrange, and she usually does 8 to 10 preview scans before she’s happy with the results. She then imports the digitized image into PhotoShop so she can even out the black background, enhance colors, adjust contrast, and get heightened visual effects.
Personally, I’m a huge fan of Susan’s work — it’s completely unlike ordinary floral photography. Her prints have the glow of an illuminated manuscript, the detail of botanical illustration, and the photorealismof a 3-D movie — petals and stems seem to curve right off the page toward you.
(In addition to the small prints on Etsy.com, a larger selection of full size prints is also still available at www.susanbarmonphotography.com)
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The artwork in this post is copyrighted material and is being used with permission of the artist. x x
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