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Appeared in "Wellington at Home Magazine" Spring 2007 |
The reproductions of my work are museum quality prints called giclees. They are made in a process that has been around since 1985. The original painting is captured digitally by a 4x5 camera containing 108 million pixels. This is about 335 mb per shot. The smaller paper prints are printed onto a watercolor rag paper. The large prints are created on a waterfast canvas. The image is printed using a series of tiny spray nozzles that emit many millions of droplets per second.This method gives a much higher resolution than lithography. The drops are sprayed and mixed using the 7 color pigmented ink system and therefore there is a wider range of color than almost any other type of print available on the market. The canvas printed giclees are usually embellished using oil paints directly on the print. This enhances the look of the print and makes it nearly impossible to tell the giclee from the original. |
