They are not the same...
I looked at one print, marked " Along the way, in Tennyson Country" in the http://www.serigraphicsinc.com site:
http://www.serigraphicsinc.com/
Notice the distinct soft blue in the sky above the mountains.
Now look at the same print in Wallingford site. No color whatsover....
http://www.wallbike.com/
In fact, by comparison, not only is the Serigraphics inc softer but the Wallingford version is almost anemic by comparison...
This whole deal is like finger nails on the chalkboard to a person like me with an art background... Dale Brown cycles de ORO, Inc. 1410 Mill Street Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 USA 336.274.5959 http://www.cyclesdeoro.com http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: johnb@oxford.net To: oroboyz@aol.com; chuckschmidt@earthlink.net; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Question about British cycling artist, Frank Patterson....
I think they're the same, but the ones represented on the Seriographics Inc. website appear to have been blurred to discourage copying. I bet the actual reproductions are even a lot sharper and more detailed than what Wallingford shows. In both cases, however, they're still not reproductions of the original Patterson drawings. It says they are "water colour enhanced Patterson prints".
John Betmanis Woodstock, ON Canada
At 07:18 PM 03/04/2007 -0400, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> Cycles de ORO has just been approached by a printer who is authorised to
sell water color prints by Frank Patterson, with the intended purpose of
reselling these in our store.
>
> I looked at the web site of this company and at the for prints offered in
the set. They are here:
>
> http://www.serigraphicsinc.com/
>
> Then I saw that Wallingford Bikes is selling them already:
>
> http://www.wallbike.com/
>
> Then I spotted something slightly curious....
>
> If you look at the illustrations of this set on Wallingford's web site,
they do not match the illustrations on your own.
>
> Especially when you click on the larger view, obviously the Walbike's
prints are pen & ink drawings which have been "colorized" ala Ted Turner,
i.e., water colour painted over drawings. The illustrations on the
printer's site are quite different, the rendering is softer and there is
more color in places where none exists in Walbikes version, more
originated-as-a-water-color-like....
>
> So, which represent the real image?
>
> Did Patterson color his drawings like this or is this a later enhancement?
>
> Any experts on Patterson out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Dale
>
>
> Dale Brown
> cycles de ORO, Inc.
> 1410 Mill Street
> Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 USA
> 336.274.5959
> http://www.cyclesdeoro.com
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com