Why Make Digital Prints What artist has not been well along a significant road only to make the wrong turn and ruin a work?
How wonderful to return to the fork in the road, where the errant turn was made, but this time choose the right path. When I ruin an exciting painting, I have the option of returning to an earlier saved version, and starting back from there. In my Print Triad, I tried more than twenty different ways to fill, overprint, and blend a masked bubble-shaped area, until I got it right. Why not enjoy the freedom of unlimited color mixing without the mess, risk, cost, and time consumption of multiple pass screen-printing? I doubt I can see 2.4 million colors, but that is how many my Mac painting application allows me to create. Why not save the color palette of every painting made? Inks run out, mixtures dry up, and recipes never seem to produce quite the same color twice. I can preserve my palettes forever. By sampling any area in a painting I can also create a palette from scratch. Theoretical colors have advantages over printer s inks. Imagine incredible possibilities for under painting, was
