ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

Digital Prints and PaintingsAnother focus of my environmental artisticactivity is large-scale prints and paintingson canvas and paper. This exploration intoprints was initiated in 1999 and eventuallydeveloped into screen-printing, digitalprint technology and ignited a resurgenceof painting—my previous medium of choicefor many years. This new focus satisfiedmy interests with advances in technologywhile still including the found plastic, thistime as two-dimensional images.In 1999 I developed a series of aerialCibachrome photographs of the foundplastics. I then developed these intocomplex, high-resolution large-scale workson canvas, utilizing contemporary computerand screen-printing advances. Thedevelopment of these works immediatelyfollowed the construction of my web site,an experience from which I learned thescope of possibilities within digital media.33