Mushroom

  Artist: Osamu Kobayashi 16″ x 20″ Hand-pulled serigraph 6 layers with textural stacking & split fountainRising Museum Board 4ply 1000gsmLaser cut edgesEdition of 40Signed & numbered by the artist From the studio: Osamu Kobayashi's paintings have a beautiful, sweeping texture in them created by his unique painting style that involves using a dozen or more brushes at once. When we approached him about making a print together, we knew we wanted to highlight this distinctive aspect of his art.These prints came together over the course of almost two years, as we brainstormed and tested ways to replicate a painting's surface texture through serigraphy.Kobayashi created an original painting with this project in mind, and we used a high-fidelity 3D scan of the painting's surface in order to create a topographic map of the texture. The texture was divided into four layers, each of which we printed numerous times to build up the ink high enough to create an effect much like the