Video: Giclee Art Reproduction Finishing Tips

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Finishing off a giclee art reproduction can be done in several ways. Find out your finishing options with expertise from a professional artist in this free giclee reproduction video.

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My name is JK Dooley and we're talking about some giclee printing today. You've had your product printed and you've decided to print on canvas. One of the things you want to make sure when you print on canvas is that it's protected. It's a fragile piece right now if it hasn't been sprayed or coated with something to protect it from the sunlight and to protect it from scratches because next this piece has to be stretched, and we're going to talk about that later, and in the stretching process it can be damaged if you haven't prepared it properly. So I use a protective coating and it's just a spray, spray product. There's a lot of this kind of stuff on the market. Make sure you get a high quality product. If you have somebody doing your printing for you they should have a product that they know and that they're happy with, and this is simply something you spray over the product outside because it definitely needs ventilation, and usually about three coats of this will work and it should seal it well enough that you won't have any problems with it, and then I go a second step, and we'll talk about this later as well, and I actually take this gel and I brush it over the surface because then the piece actually looks like it has some brush strokes, it reflects the light really nice and it looks pretty good. So that's another option for you as well, and you want to make sure that you sign your piece because this is a reproduction and it does need a second signature so that people understand that it is a reproduction because the quality of these is exceptional and a lot of times it can be mistaken for the original and you don't want people to be deceived. So that pretty much covers it.

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Giclee Art Reproduction Finishing Tips

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