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jnart@comcast.net
Joyce Novak graduated from the University of Michigan with B.S. and M.S.
degrees including an art minor. In the early 1970s, after Joyce studied under the late George Buehr, a famous Chicago artist, she
established a successful career as a watercolorist.
Joyce also developed an
original mixed media technique with charcoal, pastels and gouache. In
addition, she spent several years as a printmaker.
In 1985 Novak began painting in mixed media with acrylics, oils and
various textures. Many of her mixed media paintings are large-scale murals
that utilize a variety of shapes, innovative textures, and vivid colors
that often suggest metamorphic, mystic or other transformations.
Her most recent painting medium is digital. In this cutting edge medium,
she paints using a stylus on a digital computer tablet. The paintings are
created in color using electronic brushes and other computer tools. The
art is then reproduced using pigmented inks on archival canvas or paper
(more below).
Novak has had more than 40 solo exhibitions in Chicago, New York and other
cities, including shows at a number of universities and art centers. She
has participated in over one hundred group shows and had an invitational
exhibition and lecture tour at five leading university art schools in
China. Her paintings are included in many corporate and private
collections.
Joyce
Novak has served on many art boards. She is now president of Florida
Artists Group, Inc. She also is a member of Venice Art Center, Women
Contemporary Artists, National League of American Pen Women, Art Center
Sarasota and Twenty-Two Artists. After many years of studio work in the
Chicago area, Novak now has her studio in Nokomis, Florida.
PROCEDURE FOR CREATING WETLANDS TRIPTYCHS
The tools for creating this work include a computer, monitor and an
electronic pad (Wacom Pad) with a stylus. I use Adobe Photoshop 7 as my
software.
When creating non-digital art, a brush, palette knife or other tool is
used on canvas, paper or other surface. In creating Wetlands Triptychs,
the Wacom Pad is the surface on which the stylus is used as the painting
tool.
The software program allows me to select a myriad of brush types and
sizes. The software program also allows for the selection of any color and
texture. These are electronically reproduced through the stylus. It is as
if I was obtaining my paints from a pallet and painting with a brush or
other tool on canvas.
As I create the work, it is viewed on the monitor and stored on the
computer hard drive. The use of the stylus in conjunction with the Wacom
Pad allows me to create an original work of art through the use of an
electronic medium.
After the art is completed, a color proof is made on my inkjet printer. A
copy of the completed art is transferred to a CD. The inkjet color proof
and the CD are taken to my selected professional printmaker. With a Roland
Printer, the print maker, using my inkjet color proof as a guide, creates
a new color proof. The proof is made with archival pigmented ink on
archival canvas. Any necessary adjustments are made for color match, and I
then approve a final color proof.
The art is then printed on archival canvas using pigmented inks. In the
final stage, the print is mounted on a stretcher frame. Varnish is applied
to protect the surface of the art. By using archival inks on archival
canvas, the life of digital art is similar to the life of traditionally
created canvas paintings.
All of the paintings in the Wetland Triptych Series are created in this
manner. The paintings are limited to an edition of ten prints. They are
all signed and numbered.
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Wetlands Triptych I
Wetlands Triptych II
Wetlands Triptych III
Wetlands Triptych IV
Wetlands Triptych V
Wetlands Triptych VI
Wetlands Triptych VII
Wetlands Triptych VIII
Wetlands Triptych IX
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