Contains all posts related to Art Prints such as how to make your own art prints at home, everything you wanted to know about Giclee prints and how to sign open and limited edition prints and much much more.
At a high level, Giclee is a printing process that uses high-quality ink to produce prints that look like original paintings. The ink is sprayed onto the canvas in a very fine mist, resulting in beautiful and vibrant colors. This printing process is often used by artists who want to sell their work as prints….
Are you an artist who wants to make limited edition giclee prints? Signing your prints is a great way to add authentication and value but are you doing it the right way using inks that will last? In case you did not know, Giclee prints are high-quality reproductions of an original piece of art. Limited…
The word intaglio comes from the Italian intagliare, which means “to engrave”. In printmaking, intaglio is a family of processes in which an image is incised or cut into a plate. The ink resides in the grooves and is transferred to paper when the plate and paper are passed through a printing press. Intaglio techniques…
What is Monoprinting in art? Monoprinting in art is a process of making one-off prints as part of your artwork. It’s what you do when you want to make an original drawing using ink or paint and then print it as part of the same artmaking process. This is not to be confused with making…
A giclee print is a special kind of art print. It’s a high-quality copy of an original painting created digitally. These prints are made with a special inkjet printer that uses long-lasting pigment inks, not dyes. Pigment inks can stay bright for over 200 years (lightfastness), unlike dye inks that fade much faster, lasting only…
The answer to the question “how to tell a real lithograph from a print?” assumes you mean a mechanical print versus an artists’ hand-made lithograph print. This requires some magnification of the image because a lithographic ‘plate’ which is used to create the printed image is usually hand-made by an artist. Under magnification you can…
Making art prints at Staples means you are using office printers instead of art or museum quality printers (e.g. Giclee printing). Office printing, such as what you would get when you are making art prints at Staples; are not high quality art prints but you can come close with the information in this article. If…
If you are wondering if art prints are worth anything or have you just wasted your money, then simple answer is yes they can be valuable investments for both the art lover and collector and as well as for the artist but not all art prints are valuable. The value of art prints depends on…
