Info on reproductions:

Paintings are available in two 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 Giclées are printed on textured canvas to give the look and feel of the original and are the same size as the original painting or smaller. By printing on canvas, the colors achieved are bright and vivid, mirroring the intensity of the originals. Our canvas Giclées 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.
  
  


What is a Giclée?

Giclée (zhee-clay) 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 acquired by collectors, up to the number established as the total edition size.

With the advent of Giclée 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.

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.

If you are interested in a portrait of yourself, a loved one, friend, or beloved pet, please feel free to contact me to for details, fees, and to discuss the best photographs from which to work.