How an ordinary day with an ordinary item turned into amazing abstract artwork.

Scanography: The process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed “photo” scanner with a CCD (charge-coupled device) array capturing device.

Prior to this activity, I’ve never used a scanner to create artwork. I have never even thought about using it as a method to create art. However, it’s amazing what results you can get with a scanner!

When I was thinking about what I could create with my scanner, I knew I wanted it to be abstract enough to become fine art. I have an HP Officejet 7500A, which sits on the ground in my room underneath my shelves since it’s so dang big (it can print up to 13×19). Right above the printer, I have all my cologne out on a shelf. I looked up and saw my bottle of James Bond 007 Black cologne and knew that it would be awesome with a scanner. I’ve taken some cool pictures of this bottle before, but I wanted to see how the light of the scanner would affect the texture/pattern on the bottle when it was moving.

From the thirty different scans I actually committed to (I used the overview function a lot), I liked these four the best.

Graduated Texture

I love this first scan because of the graduated texture. Even though the texture of the bottle is all the same, by adjusting the speed and movement at which I moved the bottle on the bed created these variations in texture.

Snake Skin

Product Scanography

Who ever knew that you could pull of product photography with a scanner?

Science Tubes

When you play around with the scanner settings, specifically color settings it’s interesting to see what you end up with!