What do you have to reproduce from? 4x5 transparencies or 35mm? Perhaps you could be our test case on one of them. I want him to prove himself before I make any commitment for general promotion to my clients.

Mostly I have 35mm slides.

But there is one that won an award and the museum owns a 4x5 but won't let me have it. I wonder if they would allow a detailed scan of their transp. on a CD Rom. Would this help? The painting sold long ago.

This is the one that I want. I could have sold this painting at least 10 times already!

Can someone tell me how to pronounce the word "giclee" ? In French it would be pronounced "zhee-klay" but is that how people say it in America?

- Michele

Michele,

I always hear gee-clay.

I once saw an artist who had giclee prints made. He then went over the highlights of some of the colors with oil paints. The results were beautiful. Those highlights seemed to breath life into the print. I think he said that he got the idea from the Thomas Kincade gallery. It seems that the prints in these stores are done in the same way. Mr. Kincade has a staff of artists who apply the highlights for him.

Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Rebecca

Giclees for other family members
 

I have a client who's wife passed away. I've discussed the possiblities of Giclees for family members and he will probably be going with it.

I just finished a commission for a client whose wife passed away, also. He wanted something to give to his three daughters. Our solution was to have me paint three virtually identical portraits. (Nice way for me to get additional work and each daughter now has an original painting.)

I nailed three canvases together side by side, put them on my easel and painted them all at the same time (forehead, forehead, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrow, eyebrow). It was a strange way to work but the paintings all turned out great, and everybody's happy.

The cost of the gicl

I'm bumping this old thread up rather than post a new one -

I wonder how many of you make prints for family members? If you do, do you make a profit off the prints, or do you do it as a service to your client?

Do you think it devalues the original portrait to have prints hanging in other people's homes, or does it enhance the value for the owner of the original?

Finally - if you do prints - what method do you use? Your own printer, giclee prints, etc?

Thanks in advance for your input...

Cindy