This is the 49th short web-talk, meditation, slideshow with commentary, call it what you will, of 2010. Luc Tuymans paints from magazine images, film stills, reproductions. So perhaps it's fitting that the painting I chose to talk about was one that I saw in a brochure before I saw the original on a wall. But if it was derived from a photo, what is the 'original' anyway?
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I've just finished restoring and assembling my large etching press -- a six week process involving lots of rust removal, scrubbing with steel wool, and repainting. Here is a photo of the same kind of press from the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative: And here is a short YouTube video of me testing the press, making sure the motor still works after nearly seven years of lying in storage: