Giclée

These prints are known as Giclées, printed on archival watercolor paper. For a complete description of the process see below. Click any photo to see a larger view.

"Out of the Shadows"

"Nature's Gift"

"Pears"

"Passing Thru"

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About Giclée

Giclée printing is one of the finest reproduction available in the fine art market today. The word "giclée" is a French word meaning "fine spray". Major Museums and Galleries showing giclée prints include: The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The British Museum, to name a few. The giclée process has been recognized by many artists and institutions around the world as a fine art, museum-quality reproduction.

Our giclée prints are produced using only the finest archival pigment based inks, on either archival watercolor paper or canvas. The archival papers that we use are acid free 100% cotton paper. The truly revolutionary aspect of the giclée printing process is the color density. The viewer will immediately see much greater richness and depth of color than has ever before been possible in traditional offset lithography. In addition, giclée printing enables us to print directly on fine art paper, canvas, panel, and other surfaces which have traditionally been impossible. We use pigment based inks, rather than dye based inks, because they are far superior in archival quality.

The first step in the actual production process of giclée print is to obtain a high-quality transparency or digital file of the original printing itself. This poses it's own difficulties, as reproducing the colors of the original piece accurately requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. After we have have obtained a transparency or digital file that we are confident has accurately as possible reproduced the hues in the original, we are ready to begin the printing process. In the process, the image is first "read" by a computer to achieve color separation information, and any final adjustments to color are made at this time. This information is then sent to a sophisticated printer that is specifically designed to produce this time of print with the utmost accuracy. The image is formed by the spraying of fine dots of ink on the media, at the rate of up to one million droplets of ink per second. After the print has been completed, it is then inspected to ensure it meets our highest standards of quality. If the print is produced on canvas, it is given a top coat to protect it from moisture and damaging ultraviolet light, since a canvas print need not be framed under glass. Is it then signed, numbered, issued a Certificate of Authenticity, and finished. We are very proud of the fine quality of prints which we offer to our collectors. They are created with meticulous attention to detail and quality.