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Many thanks to George Widman for commenting on the updated website!
Chick just sent me for a look see at your site.
Wow!
Slowly clicking through your gallery, one particular thought stood out for me - your artistic sense is wonderfully complimented by your respect for craftsmanship, something this grumpy coot sees too little of in photography today. You're using all the tools masterfully.
Cheers!
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George
George Widman Photography L.L.C
Excerpts from Blogs
This Botanical Beauty of Art
likeairandwater
Blog entry, June 07, 2010
so, these are the art prints by Rebecca Dant from California..... are these painting? or photography? or prints? ..... they are scan-arts...!
she uses special scanner to capture these objects..... it is not a regular scanner with a lid..... the scanning mechanical part goes back and forth on the objects, i.e; the scanner is suspended in the air, and she lays those object on the platform with her choice of background..... lighting is on her decision, too..... very interesting is it not?
what fascinated me also, was the paper..... the paper she was using was very smooth, thick, good quality european paper..... yes, they were european, but the material of this paper was... BAMBOO! all natural.....! a sound art on environmentally sound paper..... much love .......
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Rebecca Dant -Artist
Blog entry, August, 2010
You never know (and it's a good thing) when art will jump into your life.
And so it was, as my godchild Gudren and I were strolling through the lobby of the Westin Verasa, in a room slightly off the main reception area, I saw some ginormous canvasses of flowers, some vegetables.
A huge canvas of California poppies first caught my eye. It looked about 4 feet wide. Another of a purple asparagus, I thought would be great in my living room.
Looking closely, I saw that the images were on canvas. I was sure, that Ms. Dant was taking the pictures in nature and then somehow enlarging them and printing them on canvas.
Wrong answer!
I spoke to Rebecca Dant and discovered she is a Bay Area native, who grew up on the Peninsula. She studied at San Jose State with an eye toward teaching art, but that was not a path she took.
After she married, she lived on Filbert Street in the marina and worked at a long-gone needlepoint shop on Union Street.
I originally thought that her art was a form of Giclée. This process became popular in the 1980s. But that process couldn't be Ms. Dant's because in one of her creations, that I saw, there was a printed background below the flowers.
It turns out that Ms. Dant artfully arranges what she wants to represent on her own flatbed scanner and then uses her scanner as a camera. She says this method insures natural colors. The surface is 8 1/2 by 11, but she doesn't find that limiting.
In fact she likes the small format, because it forces her to solve problems of composition.
Eventually she takes her creation to a professional printer to be printed on canvas - a very expensive proposition.
She does about ten compositions a year and prints only five of each. Dant, who is 65 and who lives in Wine Country, has been a printmaker for four years, but an artist all her life.
Many of the “subjects” of her creations come from her surroundings, her garde, the woods. She has also been engaged by some clients to create specific images in her large format.
Most of the prints I saw were 38" by 50" and cost $1200 each. They could also be made larger, she adds.
As our conversation winds down, she says (and I agree), “I am my art.”