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What Is A Giclée?
French for "sprayed ink", giclées are a sophisticated printmaking process. Giclées were originally
produced on an IRIS ink-jet printer, capable of producing millions of colors using continuous-tone technology. Today the
technology has improved greatly and the machines capable of producing these high quality works have also grown to
include machines produced by Epson and others.
Giclées are often made from photographic images of paintings in order to produce high quality, permanent reproductions.
The extra-fine image resolution possible in this printing process permits retention of a high degree of fine detail from the original
image, rendering deeply saturated colors with broad ranges of tonal values.
Many artist including myself may then paint over parts of the giclées print using oil paint to create a more authentic reproduction. These reproductions are then signed and numbered by the artist.
Many museums throughout the world have exhibited giclées and IRIS prints including The Metropolitan Museum of New York,
The Los Angeles County Museum, The British Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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The artist enhancing Giclee prints with oil paint. |
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