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Would you like to create and present unique photo gifts?

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:08:48 +0000

Today if you want to present exclusive photo gifts for your online friends, you can do it very conveniently. In fact you have virtually everything available on Internet. Now you can find pumpkin stencils online and make unique creations and carvings out of them. Carved pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns have their own place in history and is not only associated with Britain and Ireland, America is also not left untouched with it. Today with the help of numerous sites you can learn how to create a unique design or a cool Jack-O-Lantern with the help of these free sites. Not only this you can create various e-cards and even personalize them by adding your own photos to them.

Make photo gifts for your online friends and send them leaving them surprised. Using the free sites, create unique and canvas prints and then send them. Everything is so easy and simple that even a small child can also do it. You can create photos on canvas easily with these and make it look completely different and specific. Adding your photo to the scary carved patterns will make your friends feel startled. Giclee printing has made personalization of photos easy and is also done in almost no time. If you do not want to mess with the gooey pumpkin stuff, you can simply add and decorate your pumpkin with poking pieces available in a different kind of kit, which will also help you create exceptional photo gifts for your friends.

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admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:21:07 +0000

Make your home unique – photo on canvas

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:47:47 +0000

Imagine you have bought a new home and you would love to decorate it to you liking. Once all the essential items like the furniture, wardrobe, and kitchen have been taken care of, next comes the wall decoration. A wall without pictures or paintings cannot tell a story, however beautiful it is. No home is complete without pictures on the wall, whether man-made or otherwise.

Once you have decided to put some lovely pictures or paintings on the wall, how would it would be if you used your own innovative idea instead of buying a painting of a famous artist and putting it on the wall. How about having your own family photograph employing canvas photo prints with latest giclee printing technology? Your family photo on canvas will be unique when you display them on the wall. They will be exclusive to your home and add a personal touch too. Try giving photo gifts on canvas to your relatives and friends and see how they will love the same. The giclee art work on canvas is the latest and you may also add your ideas and imaginations to make the final print exclusive and inimitable. The photos on canvas not only add beauty to the walls but they also lend an ethnic finish to the overall decorum of the house and make you feel proud of your collections.

The most modern idea for home décor - canvas photo

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:21:53 +0000

There are some for whom home is just a resting place and they are happy if it is just decently presentable. While there are some more who are very passionate about doing up their home in a unique and individualistic style. They want people to visit their homes and appreciate every art piece in it. For them, canvas photo art work is the latest preferred device for home décor. According to them, their walls come alive with canvas photo by using giclee printing technology. The canvas prints are not just a matter of pride to their owner, but they are a real feast to the eyes of the visitors too, who cannot but help appreciate the taste of the owner.

In the earlier times, wall paintings created by renowned artists were used to adorn the walls of a home or any other place. With the advent of canvas photo prints, a number of people are making full use of them and are using them to decorate their homes. The disadvantage experienced in original paintings such as their durability has been taken care of with the introduction of giclee printing on canvas. The situation has changed dramatically and canvas photos have successfully replaced the old wall paintings.

The main advantage of implementing canvas photo prints for decorating the walls is you have the choice of selecting your favorite photographs taken with the help of a digital camera and having them printed on the canvas of the required size and then using them as wall hangings. They have become the preferred choice for home decors.

Giclee canvas paintings

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:41 +0000

Fine Arts shows have always been a boon to onlookers and a treasure for hunters of the fine pieces of arts. The Steward school has been a learning centre for deep rooted fine arts and, their fall festival exhibited the same at its best. It had become a venue for making fund raising exercise by the display of various giclee canvas paintings, photos on canvas and other art collections.
Almost works of 21 artists were on display at the Cramer Center Art Gallery on Gayto road of Henrico County. One of the oil paintings on a gilcee canvas by Greg Osterhaus bore the price tag at $4,600. Realising the fundraising potential the co –Chairwoman Martha Rhodes is of the opinion that it was good for the school to have struck the idea to tap it. Also it had given an opportunity for the children to carry home some of the treasures to their homes.
A seventh grade pupil accompanied by his mother was able to pack up an Osterhaus collection paying a sum of $4,400. Another visiting youngster in his fourth grade made a purchase of a giclee print on canvas by Guy Crittenden. It just cost him $750.
Ms Rhodes was very much delighted to see all the collections in one place. Not that the show had the giclee canvas paintings, it also included fused glass collections, clay sculptures, water color drawings also. They have future plans to exhibit handcrafted jewelry, clothing and more.
Apart from the sale, the entry fee provides them with additional fund collection. The shows open for public on daytimes. It will be for six hours duration on Friday and four hours duration on Saturday. On rest of the days the visitors have to get a prior appointment

The Giclee is a French word which

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:55:29 +0000

mean spray or spurt the liquid.This is derived from French word gicler which mean to squirt.It is one of the print making technology.Digital scans are used for the high resolution of the images and the archival quality inks were used for the prints on a various substrates like in canvas,photo base papers,fine art etc.,
it produce a good color accuracy than others.It is printed by the 8 to 12 colors ink jet printers.MacDermid Colorspan,Epson and the Hewlett-Packard were the great printer for this work with a great technologies.This technology printer produce an impression for both photographic market and the fine art.It is sometime refers as Iris prints it is 4 color ink jet prints which is pointed in 1970’s by the iris graphics.Giclee prints were the prints which cost less and affordable.You can change it as you wish to look like,before it fitted on the canvas once it verified by the computer then you can change the colors,paper image ,backgrounds and the special effect if you wish to be.It is a great thing for gifting and for the interior decor.

Important Works at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Art Works on Paper Day Sales as canvas photos

You can not get, or you can not afford the first row seats in a sporting event that you will not miss at any cost. What do you do? You will watch it live on TV; you will like to watch it on big screen LCD with surround sound system. That is your attempt to go to as close as possible to reality and modern technological advancement has made it possible and you will get true near life experience. This is exactly what canvas photo do for art lover, who loves and appreciates that great works but cannot afford to shell out millions of dollars to buy these expensive paintings.

Canvas photo is well established process of duplicating the paintings, drawing, pictures and photos. Getting copies of, and images with photocopying machine is very primitive method. The photocopies never look like original and the process has its own limitations, as far as enlargement, printing surface, resolution is concerned. The multicolor screen printing is very cumbersome. The latest advancement in canvas printing is giclee printing. The canvas photos made with giclee printing process are exact and cent per cent replica of original because the process is controlled by computer and printing is done on any surface of choice with help of multistage , multicolor, high resolution , super sensitive ink jet cartridges. In the process, the computer eye views, scans and analyses the original and stores it in its brains in digital form. This digital picture is then printed on canvas with help of above-mentioned inkjet cartridges. It is possible to edit the printing at any stage in order to get perfect results so that the printed picture is perfect match of original, in all aspects.

Today, on 1st November 2009, ‘artdaily.org’ has announced that ‘Christie’s to Sell Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper’. The announcement has mention about sale of many hugely popular works of impressionist like Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alexej von Jawlensky. Most of us would fill that even those are way beyond our buying powers, but we can afford the giclee prints of the same.

Apart from this we can also store our memories with help of giclee printing. Giclee can make good photo gifts by personalizing the gift with help of printing on various gift articles. In short giclee print canvas photo can assure you first row seat for any show and that too with affordable expenditure.

Perfect gifts - photos on canvas

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:28:24 +0000

How many times have you had to break you head in desperation as to what gifts to present your most loved ones? How many times you have had to cancel attending a birthday party or a marriage just because you could not think of an ideal gift to give?

Why do we always think of giving the same old conventional stereotyped gifts? Certain items have been branded as typical birthday gifts or marriage gifts and we fail to look beyond them when the occasion arises.

What better gifts than photos on canvas to your loved ones? What better gift than photo gifts and creating an occasion to cherish old memories and thin of the past times with fondness? With the advent giclee printing technology, the urge to have old art work and canvas photo prints decorating the walls of our homes is catching up.

The pace at which giclee canvas has become popular amongst art lovers and common public is to be seen to be believed. Now, very rarely you will come across people going after auctions and sales when the can get a fine reproduction of famous art works in the form of canvas prints and or cherished family photos on canvas.

Galleries Giclees Listings for October 22

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:26:55 +0000

A Giclee in the art word is referring to a piece of art printed from a digital source using ink-jet printing. Giclees are a better type of reproduction than many other methods, offering the top-notch quality of the image in vibrant colors available on many different mediums of paper from canvas to photo-paper. According to the rotating information on Gallery Exhibits there are two particular places where giclees can be found.

The first is at The Hearts Desire on 1221 12th St. W., Brandenton. Where there is work by Rita Van Gorder. She has done island-printed fabric and giclees. The hours of this particular place are 11am to 4 pm from Thursday to Saturday. More information is available at their website www.heartsdesirefl.com or by calling them at 302-1069.

Another one mentioned was Victoria B. Cooley Studio/ Gallery. Here you can find original oils, watercolors and giclee prints on display. The hours for this gallery are 11 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Friday or noon to 4 pm on Saturdays. More information can be found for them by calling 374-1988.

Though not giclees are not mentioned to be present at Bits & Pieces (1303 13th Ave W, Village of the Arts, Bradenton) as a shop with original art it might be likely to find some giclees prints. Find a great art gift there in form of a wonderfully printed giclee. Gallery hours are from 11am to 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Canvas Prints Explained

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:03:53 +0000

You may have heard about the newest form of artwork that’s taken the printing world by storm, canvas prints. Canvas prints are photographic quality art printed directly onto a painter’s canvas. In addition to having the unique texture and depth that only a canvas can provide, canvas prints also have a unique “wraparound” feature which prints the image alongside the edge of the canvas, meaning that you get the true three-dimensional feel of a real painting.

Canvas prints are created through a new and revolutionary new process known as “giclee printing.” In contrast to standard printing processes, which transfer ink directly to the paper, giclee printing is able to print without ever coming in contact with the medium. Because of this, it is possible to print on a textured material such as a canvas.

While canvas prints are available in a variety of reproductions from famous artists, the most stunning display of this new technology comes in the form of canvas photo prints. The effect that is created from transferring a photograph onto a canvas is truly unique and nothing short of amazing. The brilliance and sharpness of the photograph contrasts with the texture and depth of the canvas, and the resulting print is breathtaking.

If you’re searching for a new wall hanging or struggling to come up with gift ideas, explore the options available to you with giclee canvas prints. You may not believe your eyes!