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Krause painted large sheets of paper with acrylic paste paint, then tore the painting into pages, which she ran through the Epson 3800. drew strokes of marsh grass into the heavy-bodied paint. The large painting was torn into dou ble page spreads by folding the sheet in half horizontally, then separating into two pieces 22" x 15" each, then into four 11" x 15" pieces, then into eight 11" x 7.5" pieces. Each double page spread was coated with inkAID Type II clear pre-coat to help the ink adhere to the acrylic paint ing. The painted pages were scanned into Photoshop and combined with landscape photographs using layers and various adjustment options. Krause placed each deckle edge page on a carrier sheet of white paper leaving a margin on the leading edge and the side. She sized her images to print over the deckle using an Epson 3800 printer equipped with K3 pigment inks. Although the landscape photographs could have been put into a grid in Pho toshop and printed onto the full-size painted sheets on a large-format printer, the project was done as a demonstration for book artists who would, most likely, have only a desktop printer. Another option, if the artist wanted 34 n Digital graphics n february 2008 DGFeb08.indd 34 1/2/08 10:15:11 AM