the PROCTOR MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE, INC. |
presents: eART SCANNING "a new ART FORM" |
Developed by Terrell William "Terry"
Proctor, J.D.
Curator of the PROCTOR MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE, INC.
This new art form can be used for recording and storing excellent graphics of your gems, minerals, fossils, shells, and anything else which will fit onto a scanner. Using Terry's technique you can create beautiful artwork using real flowers, shells, minerals and other materials. All items are scanned directly into the computer without the use of a camera. Your SCANNER is your CAMERA and you can do things with it which you cannot do with a camera.
On this page you can learn some about using your scanner as your camera and both about creating artwork and recordation of your collection. Some of this material is from Terry's book on using your Scanner as your Camera, which book is available from our Gift Shop and also from https://terryco.us.
We hope that you may learn to use this new Art Form and Technique to enhance your own collecting and creating beautiful art for you home, office or for sale. For more information you may wish to purchase Terry's book.
Below we will discuss the technique in general
and then provide you with a number of examples
of eArt Scanning, both for Art and for Recordation.
Provision is made that for each eArt Scan
shown, you may click on it to have an enlarged
view.
ALL MATERIAL IS COPYRIGHTED by T. W. Proctor, J.D. and all rights to
such work are reserved. The eArt Scans and
other photos may not be reproduced without prior written
permission by the owner, and violations will be prosecuted. The
eArt scans are used here with the specific
consent of the owner, for viewing only, by
visitors to this Website.
What is eArt Scanning?
eArt Scanning is the use of your Scanner
to create art work and/or for recordation
and similar uses. It allows you, using Terry's
technique, to get beautiful artwork pictures
of real flowers, shells, minerals, live things
(like insects & lizards), gemstones and
human created objects, which appear to float in front of the background.
How do you do eArt Scanning?
First you don't need an expensive scanner.
It must be a flat bed scanner and you should
be able to remove the lid of the scanner.
Next you need some tissue and another overhead
light source. I started with a tissue out
of the sleeve of my coat when it came from
the cleaners, you know the white tissue to
hold the sleeves round. I crinkled this up
very tightly, then unwrapped it and spread
it back out pretty smooth, leaving some of
the crinkling in the paper.
Then you arrange your flowers, shells or
whatever you want to use to create your artwork
(or item to be recorded--we will call all
artwork herein) on the bed of the scanner,
facing down toward the scanner lens when
it starts to scan. Now spread the tissue
over the artwork as a background. When the
scanner scans the artwork, it will scan the
artwork and the tissue will act as the background
for the artwork
How do you do get the lighted background
in eArt Scans?
Now comes one of the secrets to getting such
beautiful results. When I started using just
the tissue and only the underneath light
from the scanner, my backgrounds were all
muggily green colors with ever darker circles
as they moved out from the item being scanned.
That was when the idea hit me to add another
light above the tissue to light up the background.
At first I used only white tissue from coat
sleeves. While in Alaska in the summer of
2001 I went to a variety store and obtained
some gel or cellophane in several colors.
I found that using blue gel gave artwork
the appearance it was with water behind it.
I used colored tissue paper to get other
effects and different colored backgrounds.
The limits are only to your own imagination
of what you can do about backgrounds.
I had an old chemistry ring stand (a base
with a vertical metal rod to which is clipped
by a thumbscrew a circular ring, which can
be raised and lowered. It went to Home Depot
and purchased a couple of fluorescent work
lights which had bases, each of which had
a hole on each side of the base and the lights
faced forward. I got some small bolts and
washers and connected two of these lights
by bolting through the holes in the base
of each, to the other. Suspending this on
the ring stand, allowed me a good wide and
long field of overhead light which I could
move up and down as needed.
By raising and lowering the light and using
different colors of tissues and gels, I was
able to light up the background behind my
artwork. I could make a number of different
appearing pieces of artwork, using the same
subject matter, but changing the color of
the background.
I experimented with different lights originally
over just the white paper. I used incandescent,
fluorescent, halide and colored bulbs. I
found that while there was some variation
(and on occasions I still vary the light
source), the main thing which made a difference
was the color of the paper used as the background.
The paper color not only allows light through
(which is why you must use tissue) but it
also reflected the scanner light from below
back to the scanner lens. On occasions, I
use the tissue without any overhead light
and get nice effects with just the scanner
light from below.
If you would like to know a great deal more
about scanning and eArt Scanning,
you may want to purchase the book, in our
GIFT SHOP.
Now we will provide you with categories of
eArt Scanned work and you can go to those
pages to see the subject matter. When you
arrive on a category page, on each small
picture on that page, you can click to see
a view of that picture. We will provide you
a few samples below, but since there are
so many, you need to go to one of the selection
tables, for your choice of subject matter.
NOTE: some selections include other items
with the item shown.
THIS PAGE AND THE REFERENCES FROM IT ARE
ALL
UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THIS TIME.
PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS THIS IS A VERY LARGE
UNDERTAKING.
TITLES SHOWN MAY NOT BE ALL THAT WILL BE
USED AND/OR MAY NOT BE USED AT ALL LATER
THEREFORE, ONLY IF AN ENTRY IS IN BLUE AND UNDERLINED LIKE THIS,
WILL YOU BE ABLE TO GO TO THAT CATEGORY AT
THE PRESENT.
FLOWER TABLE: (use back arrow to return to this website as many of the categories below are actually on the https://terryco.us website. Therefore clicking on anything on that website will steer you through TerryCo website, but will not return you here to the Proctor Museum of Natural Science website
Alaskan Flower | Azalea | Begonia | Blue Bonnet | Bougainvillea | Cabbage |
Cactus | Caladiums | Chrysanthemum | Clematis | Columbine | Cow Parsnip |
Daisy | Dandelion | Elderberry | Fuchsia | Gerber Daisy | Gladiola |
Goatsfoot Morning Glory |
Goldenrod | Grape | Hibiscus | Indian Paintbrush | Lavender |
Lupine | Marigold | Mixed Flowers | Moss Flower | National Flower of Argentina (Cockspur Coral Tree) |
Orchid |
Primrose | Reindeer Moss | Rose | Seaweed | Water Lily | Weeds |
Yellow Bells | Reserved | for | other | eArt | Scans |
MINERAL TABLE: [titles will be changed--these are for placement only]
Agate | Amazonite | Amethyst | Aragonite |
Asbestos | Azurite & Malachite | Barite | Calcite |
Chalcopyrite | Chalcedony | Copper Ore | Chrysocolla |
Dendrites | reserved | Epidote | Flint |
Fluorite | Fuchite | Galena | Garnets |
Gold | Hematite | Hornblend | Jade |
Jasper | Liminite | Marble | Marcasite |
Mica | Obsidian | Opal | Quartz |
Realgar (Arsenic sulfide) |
reserved | Rhodocrosite | Rhodonite |
reserved | Selenite | Serpentine | Sulphur |
Silver | Sphalerite | Tigereye | Tourmaline (Schorl) |
Turquoise | Wavelite | Wulfenite | reserved |
SHELL TABLE: [titles will be changed--these are for placement only]
Abalone | Chambered Nautilus | Clam | Conus | |
Harp | ||||
Red Helmet Shell | Scallop | Scotch Bonnet | Spirula | |
Turretella | Venus Comb Murex |