Original Art and Print FAQ:
What is your inspiration and process for making art?
When I make art I try to stay excited and hopeful and happy - this can be harder than it sounds! Over the years I’ve developed a process of allowing my work the freedom to evolve. This process inspires me to confront the challenges of art making and helps me to stay engaged with the work from start to finish. The excitement, energy and happiness that I experience while working is something I hope transmits to you, the viewer. My goals are to continue with a process that is more fun than eating a banana split, to advance my skills as an artist and to make work that sparks connections with people.
How would you describe your work?
Following is a description of my work written by Dr. Mark L. Smith, UT art professor, founding co-director of Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas. I call him Dr. Art - but never to his face:
“Judy Paul creates dynamic paintings that are teeming with life. Her
colorful, mixed-media works on panel are essentially about the joy of
painting. The artist's delight in all the things paint can do is
expressed in strokes, dabs, drips, and scumbles. Paul's subject
matter is as diverse as her media--birds sit happily on their tree
limbs, butterflies flutter about, and flowers and human figures wander
through her imaginary environments. But there is more; much more.
Also interwoven in the artist's densely layered pictorial spaces are
ice cream cones, pastel dots, diagrams, scientific illustrations, and
textual book fragments. This is a lot of stuff to manage but Paul
holds it all together by anchoring the many parts in dominant patterns
of lines or monumental life forms. Whether she is using acrylic
paint, graphite, screen printing, collage, or all the above, Paul
celebrates the process of making art and provides the viewer with
thoughtful and visually exciting experiences.”
What type of media do you use for your originals?
My original art work is mixed media on birch panel. The mix in the media includes acrylic paint, pencil, collage, screen printing among other things. The panel is 1/8" Baltic birch with a 2" thick cradle made of baltic birch plywood on the edge. The panels are made by my husband Barry Books. He's handy that way.
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| Original Painting - Connections I - this photo makes me want to go clean my fireplace. |
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| Connections I showing the cradled edge, no framing required |
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| Connections I detail |
What is your printing process?
I make my own prints using an Epson Stylus Pro 9900 printer. I start by taking a high-resolution digital image of the original artwork. I fine-tune it to match the original in Adobe Photoshop. The results are a reproduction with incredibly accurate replication of color and detail.
What type of prints are these, do they need to be framed?
My canvas prints are reproductions printed in my studio with an Epson
Stylus Pro 9900 printer. The gallery wrap edges make them ready to hang without framing.
If you'd prefer a different size print or loose prints that can be matted and framed - just ask me.
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"Urban Lotus" gallery wrap canvas print - 36x24" |
What is a Greeting Panel?
My Greeting Panels™ are mini art prints that come with a blank note card. They are small prints of my originals printed by me using an Epson printer, Epson inks and matte paper and are mounted on 3/4" Baltic birch plywood. On the back of the panel there is a slot for hanging and a card provided to write your greeting that you insert into the handy holding pocket (add a long love letter or gift card when necessary). You can also keep it for yourself, that's okay too! They are easy to hang with a push pin.
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| The Greeting Panel with the provided card. |
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| Back of a greeting panel - with note card and an added gift card tucked into the handy pocket on the back. They have a slot for easy hanging. |