Joy Of The Season

Title

Joy Of The Season

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

Joy of the Season is a hand-painted digital recreation of an 1880s chromolithograph entitled "Christmas Eve" by J. Hoover & Sons of Philadelphia. (Hoover & Sons also published a version of the W.C Bauer "Christmas Eve" that I painted last year). Contact me before purchasing as a card and I can customize front text for you. The process of using a public domain image as a basis for an ORIGINAL art work is discussed below in the section About the Artist.

According to The Philadelphia Print Shop Ltd, in their discussion of "Chromolithography: The Art of Color Publishers" (http://www.philaprintshop.com/chrompub.html#Hoover), J. Hoover & Sons Publishers were one of the most successful publishers of the printing art of chromolithography which I discuss briefly below.

From the article above: "J. Hoover & Sons issued popular prints for the masses in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century" This was a similar business to the perhaps better known Currier & Ives, though Hoover & Sons issued chromolithographs while Currier & Ives printed primarily hand colored lithographs, a different process. Joseph Hoover was one of the few native-born Americans who achieved success with chromolithography. "Initially he (Hoover) mostly worked for other publishers, including Duval & Hunter, and he worked with noted Philadelphia artist James F. Queen. He also issued a few hand-colored, popular prints of considerable charm. During the Centennial, Hoover won a medal for excellence for his chromolithographs after Queens' renderings.

In the 1880s, Hoover began to print chromolithographs, installing a complete printing plant by 1885. By the end of the century, his firm was one of the largest print publishers in the county, with an average annual production of between 600,000 to 700,000 pictures. Using chromolithography, Hoover was able to produce attractive, colorful prints that were still affordable for anyone to use as decoration for home and office. The audience for Hoover's prints was quite wide, extending throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, England and Germany. The subjects issued by the firm are extensive, including genre scenes, still life images, views of American locations, and generic landscapes, including a series of charming winter scenes." (I am attributing this excerpt to the Philadelphia Print Shop Ltd. but I have seen the same exact material worded identically on several other sites without attribution. All I can do is the best I can do to give credit).

Thanks to the following for featuring this image in their groups
:
THE BEST 30000 ARTWORKS - TAIKAN
PREMIUM FAA ARTISTS - DAN
OLD MASTERS - PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL ARTS - LENORE
I WISH I WAS THERE - DON
3 A DAY AAA IMAGES - CHUCK
3 A DAY WAITING ROOM ART - PAMELA
WAITING ROOM ART - NAOMI
BEST IMAGE PROMOTION - WILLIAM
ART IT IS GOOD FOR YOU - NINA
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
BOOK COVERS 1 PER DAY - JO ANN
CHRISTMAS ART 50 - MECHALA
WINTER WONDERLAND - DORA
DIGITAL REALISM - ANNE
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
OUT OF THE ORDINARY - LYRIC
GALLERIA OF INTERIOR DESIGN - BOB/NADINE
ALL FINE ART AMERICA ARTWORK - BOB/NADINE
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
IN THE MOOD - LISA
THE AWE FACTOR - LINDA
CREATORS OF BEAUTY - TANIA
IMPRESSIONISM - JOSEPH
APPRECIATING WORKS FROM ALL MEDIUMS - STEFON
500 VIEWS - 1 IMAGE PER DAY - MARIOLA
DIGITAL MAGIC - LAURA
LIGHT OF LIGHT - ALLISON
TOP DIGITAL ARTWORKS - NAVIN

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

This painting, as with most of my digital paintings, is an ORIGINAL work of art created entirely on a Wacom tablet using a number of different painting programs and various genres of painting styles overlaid upon each other, much the same as the old printing process of chromolithography. In this case, the reference image is a public domain photograph from the Library of Congress collection.

Many of my paintings, including this one, follow a process similar to early chromolithography in that each section of the painting is often a different layer. Wikipedia describes the process of chromolithography as multi-layered, sometimes requiring 25 to 50 layers to achieve the colors and fine details. Each color requires a different printing to achieve the painted look so one layer might print only an item of clothing in a painting.

The difference between that process and my own is that in my case I may paint the entire layer originally in a very abstract underpainting then repaint the next layer in a slightly less abstract style, then another layer in a realistic oils or impasto, etc. Another layer may be to deepen the color of only certain areas requiring the "erasing" of all but one small part of the image. Almost all of my paintings require anywhere from 10-30 layers to complete, some as many as 50.

Thank you for your interest in my artwork. I am a western New York based artist with a passion for the sea and a deep love for the natural world around me. If you would like to see more, my full portfolio can be found at http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com. If you enjoy my art works, please feel free to share this link with friends or share on your social networks by pushing the Pinterest, FB, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you! The Fine Art America Watermark will NOT appear on the finished product.

Because the final creations are entirely digital in nature they are considered to be original art work, not reproductions. According to the International Association of Fine Art Digital Print Makers (IAFADP), "An original digital print is not based upon using original artwork outside of the computer. The artist may use elements as source materials, such as photographs, drawings or other appropriated images (those in the public domain), but THE FINAL FORM OF THE WORK EXISTS ONLY IN THE COMPUTER AND AS THE FINAL PRINT OR AS AN EDITION OF PRINTS."

Please contact the artist, Lianne Schneider, directly if you purchase this image as a giclee print on canvas, framed or unframed. A signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity is available for each canvas indicating title of the work, my name, date of creation, a thumbnail of the painting, the origin of original work if the painting is a derivative, the number of your print in the limited printing and a guarantee that the work will no longer be available to the public in a canvas format once a total of 25 canvas prints are sold from all potential vendors.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
This is a rights managed image available for licensing at http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/lianne-schneider.html

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or the digital painting resulting from my own style and interpretation. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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