“Pressed Gold Flowers – Painting #1” was situated on the right firmly into the pad. The reverse side of the canvas paper (like the reading of a book) was affixed to the pad on the left. I brought the left paper canvas down toward the right, pressing neatly and uniformly over the entire surface.

Then I carefully peeled the A3 paper one from the other to reveal all the textures, shapes and patternisation you see. This process was repeated individually for additional gold and to add black, red, blue, yellow ochre approximately five times from the first pressing. The painting began with gold and green paint.

Here is the duplicate Painting #2 (image immediately below) with slight differences to the original beyond cropping (above image):

Both physically pressed canvasses art more beautiful than these painted images can convey.

That being said the digital artworks are no less extraordinary in my opinion:

“Pressed Gold Flowers – Solarscape #2” – <monkey hands on head> emoji.

It should be noted each digital artwork is derived from the correctly aligned painting, exactly as you see these here. There are slight yet discernible differences between paintings #1 and #2. This is not a matter of flipping the painting around 180 degrees.

What I love about my digital Editions is their taking on depth and colour field interest. I wouldn’t be surprised if this looks something like a human female womb by the way!

Pure chance.

With “Pressed Gold Flowers – Monochrome #2” I emulated the exact parameter values technically with “Pressed Gold Flowers – Monochrome #1″.

These values are Red 15; Yellow 50; Green 30; Cyan 115; Blue -12 and Magenta 300 to make the balanced monochrome tones you see in both, equally. Brightness is increased 50%.

Every new digital artwork is different of course. Requiring varying parameters.

“Pressed Gold Flowers – Solarscape #1” – <monkey hands on head> emoji :]

“Pressed Gold Flowers – Monochrome #1” looks like a light is being shown through revealing the textures.

There is no brush or palette knife work in the two acrylics.

Tube painting and paper pressing only.

Please enjoy.