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A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. Proverbs 18/16
Painting Print Media
Prints are available in a variety of print stocks.
Prints vs. Original Paintings
If all you're interested in is a picture to decorate your wall, rather than in collecting, prints are a better value than original
paintings. Here's why:
* Expense. Creating an original work of art generally takes weeks. If you had to employ someone for several weeks or several
months, how much do you think it would cost at even a modest salary? That's why original artwork generally costs at least
thousands of dollars. In order to have a real chance of your work of art having investment value, you need to buy the work of an
artist who is moving up in the art market.
* Questionable investment value. Original artwork only has investment value if the price goes up eventually. Very often, the price
does not. In short, if you're interested in investing, buy stocks-it's a safer bet. Only buy art because *you* value it.
* Knowledge. You need to be very knowledgeable about what you are doing. Make no mistake: there's plenty of fraud in this
business. There is also plenty of wishful thinking on the part of art dealers when it comes to a work's long-term market prospects.
Ready to make your home more beautiful with prints of great paintings? You're already in the right place: the Internet has
numerous websites offering an unbelievable array of art prints. Start looking now.
Joel Walsh has written a buying guide for art prints at:www.a1-paintings.com?%20paintings
Other Artist and Photographers & Suppliers of Art and Photography Equipment
Steve Fuse
Nowadays, the production of a printing matrix is no longer necessary as the high quality scanning techniques employed by
printing companies results in a perfect facsimile of the original painting or photograph. Giclee printing offers incredibly high
degrees of fidelity and richness of colour when compared to other 'traditional' printing methods and because no screen or other
mechanical device is used, there is no visible dot pattern. The expertise that is employed involves the careful monitoring of the
colour system through the use of colour profiling techniques and the understanding of the colourspace that the machine operates
within.
The print-on-demand nature of the printing process enables photographers and artists to maintain full control over the artistic
integrity of their work which, coupled with the proven archival permanence of giclee prints (when coupled with specifically
designed output media and inks) ensures that the artist's work will be enjoyed for decades. Naturally, the understanding between
the artist and their customers that the edition is truly limited must be maintained. The matrix is no longer destroyed, but the
original scanned file must be deleted or removed from circulation upon reaching the defined number of released editions, but this
has always been the case and the advent of giclee printing has no impact on this mutual understanding.
Giclee printing is indeed a fine art printing technique and one that is truly liberating for photographers and artists wishing to share
their work with the widest possible audience whilst achieving a quality that was hitherto unobtainable without huge expense.
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