Is this a print or painting? Double Happiness

[maverick]

Hi, this is my first post to this forum. I've done a couple of lino cuts and some silk screen prints, but not many. I'd like to do more.

This idea came to me a few days ago, and I decided to do something about it tonight. Since I've been painting with acrylics lately, I just used the materials at hand.

I prepared a canvas with black gesso, then I quickly covered most of it with red acrylic paint. Then I produced a chinese chop design on paper and cut it out with a knife. I laid the paper on the canvas and dabbed black acrylic paint along the edges of the paper first, then filled in the remaining areas but left a few spots showing through.

Maybe this is a silly technical question, but is this considered a print or a painting?

Title: Double Happiness
Dimensions: 10 in. x 10 in.
Medium: acrylic paint
Support: stretched canvas

[maverick]

I got my answer in the acrylics forum Double Happiness Thread

This is better called a mask than a stencil, and I probably couldn't make an exact duplicate with the mask pieces, so...it's not a print.

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