Second edition of The Lomond Review magazine appeared.

Presentation of Fine Art media includes besides tables and graphs also photographs of packages and, for the first time, macro-photographs of their surfaces’ factures.

“Digital masterpieces – new art technologies”.

Self-designed scanning system allows getting digital copies of high resolution avoiding destructive light, heat, and mechanical influence on the original. That’s why the clients of “EPOS group” are Pushkin State Museum Of Fine Arts and other important museums. Owing to this technology, on one painting, the inscription of Kasimir Malevitch was revealed.

About art-cloning technologies based on modern polygraphic technologies and decorative hand-made works tells Georgis Delisonas, decorating master of Arktion company. His interview “The art of cloning” tells us about “covering an art masterpiece copy, which can get up to 2 mm thick and contains of 6-7different materials.

The work on one copy can last up to two years, and its cost run up to 1000 euros and more.”

How to create an art masterpiece copy most close to the original? “Final Treatment” is an article of expert Mikhail Zabelin about treatment of reproductions printed on linen canvas and covered with lacquer and texture gel. “You can apply gel with palette knife or even with steel ruler, trying to repeat the original applying technique.”

“Original print evanesces?” An article about seriography by Ekaterina Sukhoparova. “Main principles of seriography are a limited circulation with obligatory signature and numeration of all works as well as personal author’s participation.” As soon as the circulation is printed, matrix is destroyed in the presence of persons in charge. Printing exemplars over limited edition is forbidden by the law like counterfeiting.

“3D + Print + Brush”. The artist Mikhail Plakushkin shares with our readers secrets availible for every person interested in digital printing. “Use of Lomond Linen Canvases offers almost infinite opportunities for those who plies the brush even just a bit and interferes with graphic editors. Creating qualitative art prints with elements painted with artistic brushes and using Adobe PhotoShop and 3D is a bit unusual, but very intresting.”

“Art posters market”. A review of Russian museum art reproductions market. “A great part of reproductions owns “Agni” edition from Samara. It has licensed agreements with most state and private collections.” “It is clear that every collection chooses the best art masterpieces for making art posters, but there are manifest leaders: Shishkin, Savrasov, Kuindzhi; successfully sold are “Decuman Wave” of Aivazovsky and “Last Day Of Pompei” of Brullov”.

“Posters: now and here”. A review of poster printing technologies. “Serious manufacturers, if holding dear its reputation, do not use offset printing on canvas or do not advertise it.” “Professional prints on canvas, printed with inkjet printing technologies, are now called “Giclee”, which means “a splashing jet of water” in French”.Exposure of ‘Hallard’ 3D pictures by IKEA.

“Decorating virus”. An interview. Form February 17th to march 15th, there was a personal exhibition in Saint Petersburg Museum of Photo History of Andrey Polushkin, artist and photograph. Black-and-white works were created in digital photo editing technique, so the author. Using modern digital technologies and traditional photo printing, an artist creates spaces, which photographically represent the revealed inner world of his characters. “My instruments are a camera, a PC and a dark room. I combine elements on my PC and create a picture which is responded to the initial image, print it on the film and print with traditional gelatinous argent technology. Sometimes I also work on the print with Indian ink, oil, or acryl.”

“No day without a shot!” An interview with great Russian photograph N.N. Rachmanov. He’s 74 now, but he is still photographing panoramas of Moscow from 100 m height, he has written over 50 books, directs a choir, carries photographical equipment of 60 kg, collects “lucky” frogs, and on his calling card, just “photo journalist” is written. “I like filming Moscow in winter, because the architects fully appreciated that it is a northern city. Maybe you have noticed how relief the merlons of Spasskaya tower are after a snowfall? Snow retouches, gives extra volume. The most beautiful photo is less colorful, because motley irritates.”

“I see-I photograph-I print”. Professional point of view on photographing and photo printing. Olga Makarova is a dancer, a producer and a photograph. “Photography is, unfortunately, a compromise. A variety of light passages and color hues must be limited by facilities of film, matrix, and monitor. There is a smaller brightness limit, as well as not every color can be reproduced on monitor or print.”

An interview with Nikiforov V.I., CEO of “Fototsentr” on Gogolevsky Boulevard. “In 1983, in Saint Petersburg LOMO corporation released a compact and simple camera ‘LOMO-kompakt’, which was easy to carry in a handbag or pocket. Due to this, in 1992, in Austria appeared a new term ‘lomography’. It means “photographing everywhere, hand-held photographing”.

An interview with Kutashev I.E., technical and technological director of “Fototsentr”. “In our Educational centre, besides various courses, there are master-classes like “Social and political reportage” by Y. Abramochkin, “Art of photo reportage” by V. Viatkin, “City scenery” by N. Rachmanov, “Art of portrait photography” by V. Plotnikov, “Filming and montage”. It is possible to get a qualitative print without expensive equipment and professional experience.

“Denco: a bridge between brand and client”. An interview with Alena Gurova, sales department chief, and manager Yulia Maximova. “Since 1998, Denco is a permanent partner of Lomond. In 2004, we became one of the main distributors and joined Sineus, Demos and Ergodata to form the “great four” of official distributors.”

Need an unique present for special event? Remember “Assotiations” project of Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaja in “Kaavan Istorij” magazine.

“Portrait of Boss in the picture” is master-class of designer Olga Kovaleva – is a step-by-step description of ‘implantation’ of a photographic portrait in “Portrait of an officer”, a picture by Franz Hals, using Adobe PhotoShop. You just have to print and set it in a frame. And besides, practical recommendations how to choose and place art-posters in office and home interior in the “Individual project” by Ekaterina Sukhoparova. Opinion of Viatcheslav Khabirov, an artist, on posters and art prints. And a virtual discussion of “Replicated Art” edition participants about copies in modern art.

Tendencies of digital printing market in an interview with Photo Marketing Association (PMA) CEO Ted Fox and Alexey Vassiliev’s report from PMA 2006 in Orlando. New steps of leading companies Hewlett-Packard and Epson on the market mirror coming changes.

Reports from the 9th international artistic salon “TSDKH 2006 ‘The Contemporaries’” and “Skrepka EXPO 2006” at MVC ‘Krokus-Expo’

New artistic images contest “Art-print” for Lomond prices terms.