While our web site offers a specific size for a print, we can provide prints in other sizes for most of our images. Please contact the artist for other sizes that may be available for any of our paintings.
The lithographs offered for sale through our web site were originally published by Gallery South in Chesnee, S. C. Our giclee prints are produced by Fine Art Reproductions, LLC of Charleston, S.C.
Our prints can be supplied with frames on request. Please contact the artist for a quote on frames for any of the prints of our paintings.
The Printing Process
Two types of prints are offered through this web site. One type of print is a lithograph and the other type of prints are known as giclées.
Lithographs are produced through an off-set press printing technology, usually using a four to six color process. Prints made from this technology are "mass produced" in order to get the cost per print down for the artist. Usually 1000 - 2000 prints are made for each image.
Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay"), from French, is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.
The term "giclée print" connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclée printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction.
Giclée prints are created typically using professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets.
Delivery
Please allow two to three weeks for delivery.
Certificates of Authenticity
Each Giclée print is provided with a certificate of authenticity by the printer to assure the buyer of the highest quality of print.
