About The Prints
My paintings are taken down to California
where there is a flatbed scanner large enough to scan them at actual
size. By doing this, I’m able to retain the subtlety and detail that is
often lost when an image is photographed, reduced to film size and then
enlarged again for printing, which is the normal way.
The scanned information is stored digitally on
CD, and then either printed individually, as in a giclée,
or color-separated and printed in layers as in photo-litho.
In the giclée
process a fine spray of ink, more than four million droplets a second, is
projected onto fine art paper (a droplet’s diameter is four times
smaller than a human hair!)
The
system is so precise, a print can be run through twice, and each droplet
of ink will land exactly on the droplet deposited the first time. Each of
the colors travels on a continuous stream, while a crystal vibrating at a
certain frequency causes a wave pattern that breaks the droplets into
equal size and regular spacing.
This
latest advancement is carried out by only a very few sophisticated art
printing facilities. The reproduction has the look and feel of the
original. You need a magnifier to tell them apart.
All
prints are numbered and signed. Some of the larger giclées
are hand-finished, with paint and/or gold leaf.