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Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") prints are inkjet prints of a painting, usually on canvas or fine art paper. I do not offer mass market giclée posters or large canvas transfers. I do make certain popular pieces available as postcards, greeting cards, calendars, and other promotional items. In some circumstances, I may offer a reproduction of a signature piece. This reproduction will be a canvas giclée print that I then completely repaint. I repaint because mechanistic reproduction of my work isn't as effective as I would like. For example, my paintings are made up of many translucent layers and, as good as technology is, it doesn't render the same lit-from-within neon brightness as one of my paintings. The dark colors on a print tend towards black rather than deep tones and there isn't a way to replicate the light-reflective qualities of the luminescent or gilded paint I use. Moreover, digital processing tends to leave the picture a little fuzzy and, lastly, there just isn't that same sense of texture on a giclée print as from brush on canvas. Fine points, perhaps. To my eye, the only problem is that giclées look like prints and not paintings. That's not to say there aren't perfectly beautiful prints out there, but if you're buying an image in order to look upon it every day, it should be as beautiful as it can be. Mine are.
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