Original Digigraph Prints - Creative Process Description - Artist James Morton

James Morton’s Digigraphs are original artworks created using a hybrid process that blends photography, digital painting, and fine art printing. Each piece is built in layers—reimagining real places with expressive color and texture—then printed using archival pigments for lasting beauty. These are not reproductions, but original digital works printed in limited quantities and signed by the artist.

Artists Description:

The Original Digigraph Prints are a combination of numerous digital media. I do not use any “apps” to make these works . These are a result of techniques I have been developing over the past 20 years.

The Digigraph technique begins with making a specially prepared collage of my own digital photographs.  Once satisfied with the composition of these photos, the image and color is digitally transformed. The contours shadows and texture are also changed to suit the overall composition; making some images come forward and others recede. Transparent colors and layers are added to create visual luminosity and depth. Lastly, hand-directed digital painting is added.

There is currently no distinct name for digitally based Fine Art or Art made through the use of digital tools and software on a computer. The name Digigraphy or "Digigraphie" is one term referenced more frequently in Europe to define high quality digitally based fine art prints created with an Epson printer and Giclée Printmaking.

My Digigraphs take the finished physical from of a high resolution Giclée Print and are not a "copy" or "reproduction" of an original painting or

drawing etc. Each Digigraph is considered an "original print" similar to Fine Art traditional printmaking.

Currently, I am making Original Digigraph Prints up to 44 inches in height and at almost any length using Fine Art Watercolor Papers and Canvas.