This December marks the 70th anniversary
of the premiere of the world’s first-ever
commercially successful feature-length
animated film: Walt Disney’s “Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs.” To commemorate
this occasion, Collectors Editions artist Toby
Bluth has created two all-new artistic
interpretations of imagery from the film.
Both are infused with all the depth, texture
and richness of his original watercolors.
"Portrait of Innocence" is a giclee on hand-
deckled
archival watercolor paper featuring
Snow White in the cottage of the seven
dwarfs. This edition has been personally
 hand-signed by Toby
and Marge Champion,
the original live-action
reference model for the
character of Snow
White. Each print is
accompanied by a
photo of Ms. Champion
and a special certificate
of authenticity, both
suitable for framing.
"Coming Home" is a
giclee print on handdeckled
archival watercolor
paper featuring
the seven loveable
dwarfs as they march
home to discover
someone in their woodland
cottage. Each
piece in this edition has
been hand-signed by
Toby.
Black and white photograph
of original live-action reference
model for Snow White- Marge Champion
Dimensions: 5" x 7" |
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| ECLIPSING ALL OTHERS |
Making Magic
With Chiarographs
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 ransferring images onto paper has always
fascinated Tim Dickson. He still remembers
rubbing the backs of magazine photos with
turpentine in a sixth grade art class and transferring
the images to paper, forming collages. Later on,
in college, he took several black-and-white
photography classes and loved watching the
photos slowly come to life in the darkroom.
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 Today, Tim continues to
feed his love for the
printing process as
owner and co-founder
of Eclipse Workshop,
Collectors Editions’ inhouse
printing division.
And in his personal life,
his passion for printing
led him to invent a new
art form: the
Chiarograph.
His proprietary technique
of Chiarography
fuses traditional printmaking
and the latest
digital technology and
involves printing photographs
on specially
prepared substrates.
Although each
Chiarograph has a
pattern or part of an
image that is repeated,
the individual handpainting
preparation
results in a one-of-akind
print. No two
prints are identical.
Although today’s digital technology gives people
immediate access to images, Tim still enjoys the
excitement of making images come to life in the
printing process. He especially enjoys the intensive
hand preparation and attention involved in creating
Chiarographs.
“I enjoy the interaction in the printing process, in
actually getting your hands dirty and working on a
print,” he adds. “With Chiarographs, you’re digging
in and putting yourself in between the print and the
paper. You’re not a spectator; you’re driving the
process. And that’s what I love to do.” |
