Giclees

Giclees – a great way to appreciate visual art.

How can giclees help us appreciate the beauty of the landscape, etc?

 

Giclees (or giclee prints) are a great way to bring the beauty of landscape into our homes. By means of the fine art giclee, we have available today a huge variety of visual art-work and photography from all corners of the globe. Never before has there been so much choice. And due to state-of-the-art technology, this seems set to continue.

In the world of art images, giclees are now found virtually everywhere. (I’m assuming you’ve heard of the fine art giclee – if not, then please read ‘giclee definition’ first.)

The fine art giclee has been around for at least 150 years, but it’s only since the advent of computers and digital printing that  the giclee has really come into its own. By means of such technology, we have available the facility to produce a single fine art print of superb quality at the touch of a button.

Not so long ago, artists had to have their work reproduced on a litho press as a limited addition print. To be in any way economical, print runs needed to be at least 500 to 1000 copies.

For artists this was limiting for several reasons: -

• if they only sold a few, they were left with piles of unsold prints!
• they had to choose their images carefully in order for this not to happen.
• the images they chose were generally their most commercially viable, so as not to lose money.
• therefore they would print relatively few pieces, in the hope of making a profit.

Now however, artists are able to:-

• share their work liberally in the form of the giclee.
• print a single copy at a time, as required.
• free themselves from the storage problems they used to have with lithograph prints.
• make available work that would not have previously been  commercially viable, without risk of losing money.
• make availabe work for the more discerning art collector.

I have been producing fine art giclees for about a decade now. However, being the right-brain oriented artist I am – I’ve not yet got it together in any organised way. But now – thanks to a little help from my friends – it’s happening! I now have giclees made for me by my associate Ian McLean, who now boasts a state of the art printer – the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 – which lays claim to no less than 11 different ink colours. Most home printers have no more than five. So effectively this is fine art printing as good as you can get.

Please follow this link to see the giclees I have to offer: Giclee Prints for Sale

Thanks for looking,

Steve

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