Paintings are available in three different formats
The Original
Painted in oil with the highest quality oil paints. There is only one.
Museum Wrapped Canvas Giclée
A museum wrap involves stapling on the back of the stretcher so that the sides are white. Does not require a frame to be displayed.
Our canvas giclees are printed on textured canvas to give the look and feel of the original and are the same size as the original painting. By printing on canvas, the colors achieved are bright and vivid, mirroring the intensity of the originals. Our canvas giclees are stretched on heavy duty stretcher bars and are museum wrapped, adding a three dimensional studio feel and creating the option to hang them unframed for a more contemporary look. Each one is signed on the front and signed and numbered on the back.
Paper Giclee'
Our paper giclees are printed with ultraviolet resistant inks on acid-free watercolor paper. They are signed, numbered and ready to be framed. Featuring:
• Acid free for fine-art preservation.
• 100% cotton rag for long-term durability
• Rich black images for prints with high contrast
• Bright-white surface for vivid color reproduction
• Smooth surface for sharp details and accurate reproduction
• Lightfastness: 57 years
What is a Giclée?
Gicée prints are in the finest tradition of European printmaking in that the prints are made individually, on a one-by-one basis, rather than the mass production method of photo mechanical offset-lithography used for most reproductive prints today. Giclée printing allows the artist to establish a smaller edition of prints. Each individual print can be created one-at-a-time as they are aquired by collectors, up to the number established as the total edition size.
With the advent of Giclée (zhee-clay) the art of fine art printing has become even more precise. Because no plates or screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and the dynamic color range is greater than even serigraphy.
In the Giclée process, a fine stream of ink - more than 4 million droplets per second - is sprayed onto archival paper or canvas. Each droplet is four times smaller than a human hair. This produces a combination of over 3 million possible colors created by highly-saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. In displaying such a full color spectrum, the prints are lush and velvety with the feel and tonality of a fine oil painting or the luminosity of a watercolor.
The finished Giclée print is protected by applying an extra strength UV coating to insure museum quality standards for the collector. The limited edition is hand signed and numbered by the artist on the front of the piece. Each Giclée print is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity.
Giclée prints have gained worldwide acceptance in the art community. For example, the Louvre in Paris uses the process for the reproduction and display of works which cannot be allowed out of the museum cellars, and would otherwise never be shown to the public.
Custom Sizes and Papers
If you would like a print produced at a particular size or on a particular printing medium not listed here, contact us and we'll do our best to make it happen.