Finding Giclee Prints For Sale

By Karyn Shields


Technology has progressed so rapidly over the last century and today a printing process exists that has revolutionized the way art is sold. When one sees giclee prints for sale, they have been printed in a manner whereby all the hues and tones of the original work are reproduced without any dot screen pattern being visible. This type of printing is called by a French term meaning nozzle due to the way the ink is sprayed onto the substrate.

This printing process involves the ink being sprayed onto the substrate and although most people are familiar with the desktop inkjet printer, the ones used for this process are much bigger. A scanner is used to make a digital copy of the artwork. This can then be made larger or smaller and printed out onto an appropriate substrate.

Fade-resistant inks are used so that the colors remain vivid for many years. The artist will often choose the same substrate as used for the original to produce an effect as close to it as possible. When using watercolor paper, the effect is very close to the original as the inks saturate the paper so well. Canvas is often used too and it is stronger and more crease resistant than paper.

Artists are becoming increasingly attracted to the possibilities digital art presents. Some of them are creating artworks digitally and printing them out while others are discovering that printing copies of their original artworks offers them a much wider market. Yet others are experimenting with a combination of digital and hand painted artworks. A buyer of art needs to keep up to date with all the forms of art available and to know what has value.

Digital copies must be classified as such. Limited edition prints offer artists a way to make their art more widely available. Copies are available at a more reasonable cost and are priced higher if they are limited edition. This option allows more collectors to buy their work.

There are ways artists have found to make limited editions more valuable. They can do so by numbering them, signing them or even adding brush strokes to personalize them. The more personalized the copy, the more they can charge.

Buyers need to be aware of how many copies of a work exist and such information should be clearly stated by the seller. Sellers that try to mislead buyers do so at the risk of their reputations. Buyers who pay for a limited edition print and then find that many more are available will feel that they have been deceived and will not buy from the work of the artist again.

A copy will never be an original but many of the best ones come really close. Thanks to this printing process and the close creative control that it allows the artist over the end product, the vivid colors are pleasing to look at and will not fade. Limited edition copies, particularly those that are personalized, add value to any collection. Copies of artworks are finding their way into the hands of people who would not have been able to afford them in any other way.




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