“My work expresses blackness across multiple media platforms, laying bare my personal history, and humanity. I make drawings on paper and iPad, digital and analogue photographs, sculpture, and installations, then sample them and in the hip-hop ethos of “grinding” output them as relief sculptures, digital prints, video animations, games, and social media apps. I work intuitively, letting go of pretense so that the story reveals to the viewer an entry point, a beginning but never an end.”

Here is an interview with Sean ( https://www.pifmagazine.com/2012/08/sean-watson/). And you can see more of Sean’s artwork here: https://www.mosessun.studio/

It was fun to scan Sean’s artwork. Sean works in mixed media, and embellishes photographs. The challenge with this art scan was the metallic pens. Sean uses metallic pens in his art, and it’s very difficult to capture metallic paint when art scanning without also getting highlights. It’s those pesky specular highlights, or bright spots you see in a photo of artwork.

In our case, the cross polarized setup we have for art scanning cuts the glare in the painting, but it also dulls the metallics in artwork. We often have to photograph artwork, or scan artwork twice in order to truly capture the art. First we scan the art cross polarized, then we scan the art with no polar lighting without moving the art or the camera. Then after the art scan we stack the images in photoshop to highlight the gold and silver. It’s a time consuming process for scanning artwork, but it works, and gives great art scans.