Join us on Friday March 1st in the Elting Memorial Library'
s Steinberg Room from 5 to 7PM as we host the opening reception for local
illustrator and graphic artist Nick Driano's show \"Gnomes and Other Unkno
wn Creatures.\" Light refreshments will be served. Sign up to receive an e
mail reminder the day before the reception!
The show will be on
display for the entire month of March!
Ab out the Artist
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\n\"Over the years I've developed sev
eral different ways of creating an image. I started out as a cartoonist an
d was working with pencil\, pen\, ink and grey markers. I had little exper
ience working in color\, until fate came knocking at my door.
That knock came from my friend Bob. He just got into doing stained glass a
nd opened a shop in Brooklyn and needed me to do designs. So Bob taught me
the basics of doing stained glass and I fell in love with it and hence wa
s my introduction into color and its power.
I move upstate and
never looked back or desired to go back to city life. I opened a stained g
lass shop in New Paltz\, NY in 1979. At that point I was manufacturing Tif
fany Type lamps and wholesaling them to lighting stores throughout the tri
-state area.
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\nOver the last two years I've been abl e to focus on doing detail graphite drawings. Afterwards I scan them into the computer. It takes six scans to get a 18 by 24 drawing into the comput er.
\nUsing Photoshop\, I piece the six scans into a single image an d then I colorize the drawing such as you would a black and white photo. I isolate a particular area with the rope tool and then stroke the rope lin e and colorize using the color adjustment which consists of three sliding knobs that when moved side to side will add a range of color choices.\"
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