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Our new artist from London is a young lady who will surprise you…
Animating her scanns and playing with her painted portraits, that's what Lil Ashton is dealing with.

And the results are surprising. Not only are this portraits intriguing but they also move you as they move themselves. These are like cries from outside world or inner feelings. In the same time there is a lot of humor and fun in those images.

The best way to understand what I mean is to check on her page…

I had not much time in the last weeks but here we go again… I have to present you 2 new artists : one for july and one for august. A great summer in a way.

Werner Abel, for july, is a german artist who is fascinated by the possibilities of the flatbed scanner. He is presently publishing the first german book about scannography at Nardelli publishing.

Luis Castelo, for august, is a spanish artist who teaches photography at the Fine Arts University in Madrid. His images are like nothing comparable, between scientific views and graphic design.

Please leave comments about these two interesting guys…

Werner Abel :

Luis Castelo

You can discover more of Luis's creations on his own site here

One more info for this week. First thanks to everyone who gave me some news. Thomas sent me 3 new images. I think they are exceptionnal. I can't show them here : they would be too much reduced. So please take a look at them here, it's worth the click and much more.

A strange name for a strange artist. Don't miss her, she shows dark images, a complete different mood in scanner Art. Evilsabeth Schmitz-Garcia tries to express her sentiments, feelings through with the scanner and the way this device captures faces, ambiances and colors. Yes it's dark and uncomfortable but isn't life like this sometimes (I hope not too often !).

Here is what she says herself about her work : "I tried to represent Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms with photographies. I decides to use scannographies instead of photographies because the pictures I took with my scanner gave me the look I wanted, like "someone trapped inside a dark place", a dark place wich could be a Borderline's mind."

And if you want to see more of her work she shows great photos on her Flick'r page…

But not too heavily, otherwise she would crash all the deicate things she scanns !!

Janet is a long time member of our site. She sent me beautiful images that I recently added to her page. I've not much more to say that : go and take a look, it's worth the few minutes. Thank you Janet for your fidelity.

The artist for this month is finally on the site.

His name : Stewart Nelson. His work is mainly based on leaves and fronds and bright colors. Stewart doesn't hesitate to alter the natural colors to arrive at the result he wants. His images are strong, simple and appealing. Hs compositions focus mostly on one main element and that gives strength to the whole picture.

Stewart is a professional photographer living in Florida. And you can also take a look at his very graphic and interesting photographic works here.

Jaime Ruas sent us new images created in his unique and fantastic technic.

Take a look at his page to see his Art is such a personal one and it has some magic in it. His personal universe grows with his practice of scanner painting, his mixes of types, colors, forms produces a very graphical result.

Personnaly, I'm a big fan.

Tamara Stoneburner is a calligrapher and illustrator, she discovered the magic of scannography recently. Tamara's work isn't the most astonishing but her pictures show what scannography can be for many amongst us : the perfect media to "pick up on intricate details of objects that are not noticed by the naked eye" Her pictures are perfect in light, sharpness and colors. She seems to see her work more like a testimony for what she sees around her, then as an artistic form of imaging. She is also one of the rare persons that scans insects and other little creatures, and, I must admit, this makes me feel less alone !!!

Finally some new things on our site !! I'm sorry I had no time before but I had hundreds of illustrations to create in the last 5 months.

So. Here we are presenting you a formidable photographer who is now working in scannography. The works Chad Kleitsch presents us here are divided in two parts. The first is the classical scannography theme : flowers and leaves, simply presented but in a perfect way. The second theme is much more personal, in my humble opinion. Chad works with papers, scanning letters, enveloppes, receipts but with an incredible lightning which gives almost live to those papers. Chad seems to have thought a lot about his way of doing things and the result is very sensitive and emotional. Here is an extract of his statement, which I find very relevant : "For some primordial reason when a new image making process or technique is created we innocently throw nature onto its surface, as some kind of ongoing test. Perhaps looking to see if it can match our own perceptual abilities and/or move beyond it."

“Letter from Camp” Flower nonsense receipt

I hope you like that new artist and you can also take a look at his own website here.

Our new guest on scannography.org is a young woman who discovered scanner Art a few years ago.
You can discover her images on her "artist" page.

Sian seems fascinated by movements but she also has an amazing sense of composition, colors and harmonies. Her images are pure beauty added with a non-common vision of the little things. Her last serie, "stratification" is a poetic view of what movement can create on a flatbed scanner.

But take a look to her older images and you will discover sensible and beautiful, maybe more classical, scannographies.