Heger's back alley

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03/18/2019

Example of giclee reproduction

03/18/2019

This “… back alley” project took root some time back in the Philippines in the mid-1980s. Ever since I can remember, I’d had this overpowering and compelling urge to experience the orient. I was in my junior yr. at the Univ. of MN when I began sailing the Gt.-Lks on the iron-ore boats. After some few yrs. (acquiring my AB ticket [able-bodied seaman] and feeding my ever-growing anticipation to experience the far-east), I could see I would never make the wages with a major in eng. lit. as I was presently pulling-in aboard a working vessel upon the Gt.-Lks. So … a’sailing it would be.
Eventually, the call was too great and I gave up the ‘Lakes’ to go to sea.
With Military Sealift Command (MSC), I found myself operating out of the Philippines, Subic Bay being home port, more or less. Over the next 7-8 yrs., I was out to sea about as much as I was in Subic Bay — Olongapo City. Fortunately I had the chance to visit and experience many ports-of-call from: J*pan: S. Korea; Hong kong; Thailand; Singapore; Australia; to Mombasa; Oman; Sri Lanka; on through the Suez Canal to Augusta, Sicily; Naples; among some few others.
During this phase of my life, the thought was ever present as to what financial aspect my declining years of life would take? How would I supplement my social security in my ever dwindling working years?
And so … I came across these sets (three) of booklets of woodblock prints (my eng. lit. took a turn toward J*p. lit.) and together with J*panese postcards, I engaged local artists to reproduce canvas copies in the Philippines for sale later-on in my retirement. My on-going agreement with these local artists was of a sudden interrupted with the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo and subsequent closing of the US Naval Air Station at Subic Bay.
It has taken me some time to put this project together, but with the assistance of #1 daughter, I am where I am at. All is presently in place to initiate this my last adventure. My intention is to take an order, have a giclee reproduction printed on canvas, and … we’re in business.

Example of giclee reproduction : (20" x 30" - giclee reproduction
on canvas)
Eitaibashi Bridge, Fukagawa

by: -- Toyoharu (1735-1814)
Series : Views of Edo (Old Tokyo)

Ukiyo-e

Hope you’re as enthralled by these woodblock prints as I am.
t. heger

04/23/2018

After some experimentation, a "new" and updated page is now in order; "terrence@hegersbackalley"

10/02/2017

(PAINTING-CODEX) -- to order

ER - emperor's road
FE - far east
HT - Hiroshige's Tokaido
MF - mt. fuji
NA - native american
S - ship
T - tropical
UK - ukiyo-e

10/01/2017

Example of product offered for sale. These reproductions will vary somewhat in tint or tone of color. Also these photos were shot at home under unprofessional lighting, hence the difference in shading or lightness of examples. Reproductions sold will be the work of professional giclee photographers. Any questions contact via e-mail : [email protected].

10/01/2017

japanese wood prints:

ICHIRIUSAI HIROSHIGE, considered the most popular woodblock artist of all time, traveled down the “Tokaido,” “the way facing the eastern ocean” in 1832. The Tokaido was the main highway from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto and along the way, there were fifty-three stations whereby travelers could find entertainment and a night’s rest. Hiroshige sketched as he went and in 1834 he revealed a set of fifty-three prints of devoted views plus a print from both Nihombashi, the starting point, and the arrival, Kyoto, fifty-five total.
KATSUSHIDA HOKUSAI'S, first great original project was conceived at age sixty-three, the set of colored prints called “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji” issued between 1823 and 1830; ten more later added to total forty-six.
Nearly a hundred years later, a young American Red Cross Officer and student of English and American Literature, EASLEY STEPHEN JONES, purchased a souvenir booklet of the prints reproductions and as he traveled about, recorded his impressions of Mt. Fuji. Upon returning to the United States, he felt challenged to write a poem to go with each print. These poems were set aside while Easley continued to cultivate enjoyment of J*panese life and art through the collecting of old prints and illustrated books.

10/01/2017

From a unique collection of woodblock prints put together by the artists HOKUSAI'S (thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji) and ICHIRYUSAI HIROSHIGE'S Tokaido (“the way facing the eastern ocean). These paintings and a goodly number of others were produced out of the "Ibanez Art Shop" in Olongapo City, Philippines using woodblock prints and postcards as portrayals from J*panese life (Ukiyo-e).
Prices will range from $180 - $360 depending on size of print ordered.

Sold only as giclee reproductions on canvas in sizes ranging from 12” x 18” — 24” x 36” with a 2” white border, plus tax; free shipping delivered in a cardboard tube. You will need to mount and frame your reproduction.

Go to 'terrence@hegerebackalley’ on Facebook and click (photos) for full viewing spectrum of painting selection.
E-mail add. is : terrence@hegersbackalley.

This is a work in progress, prices subject to tweaking.

09/24/2017

Example of giclee reproduction