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Here is a shot of the stretched giclée on my easel: This is the one I was working on today...
One of my best-selling items from the Charisma Art Gallery Store are the embellished giclée prints on canvas. The reason being that they are more affordable than the original paintings, but with a high-end visual impact resembling an original quite closely. An embellished giclée not only has the texture of stretched canvas, but also has the added texture of actual one of a kind brush-strokes that I add after the giclée is printed, stretched and sealed to prevent scratches. A giclee fine art print refers to a machine-made reproduction providing a look and feel similar to that of the original artwork. The name comes from the French word "giclée (pronounced gee-clay) - meaning to spray or squirt.
Our sophisticated giclée printers use between six and twelve color, archival quality archival pigmented inks and ultra chrome inks (which are guarantied to last up to 75 years) onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction and is fade resistant for many years - which is where the main difference is found to other current printing processes. Today I embellished a rather large giclée print for one of my treasured patrons - it's titled "Firefly Ballet" and is 20" x 40". To embellish giclées I use professional artist grade heavy Acrylics - I find those have a wonderful texture to them and they hold their shape much better than the more fluid ones And here is a close-up shot at an angle to show you the texture of the brush-strokes I applied: To finish the print off, we lightly varnish it with a UV protectant to give it some gloss and make it easier to keep clean and protected. The edges are painted black, and when everything is dry, we carefully package it and send it off to it's new home accompanied by wishes for lots of smiles in it's new spot. So there you have it - of course, this might have raised more questions that it answered...drop me a line, I'll be happy to answer any questions I can...
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