How to Buy Art Prints

Video Transcript

"Hey, welcome everybody! My name is Lars Erik Robinson. You came to my studio here. My company is LarsEr Arts All Around Art-tainment and today we're going to talk about prints and how you buy prints. That is another, there's all different kinds of prints. There's a computer prints that you can buy that you will just print out prints. There's also prints artists actually make on their own through traditional printmaking. And that's more of a fine art way of printing things on silver plates so they scratch out and that's beautiful. And that's, that will, I won't consider, I will consider that a lot more valuable than a regular print out from the computer. But if you really like a piece and you want to have a print out of it from an artist and how do you go around to about buying that, there's a lot of different qualities that you should look out when you go to do that. You need to look at the size and how close it is to the original painting, if you're able to do that, if you're able to compare. And if you think it's very close to what the original painting is, then, it's worth investing in. When it comes to prices, usually prints are a little bit cheaper unless they have limited amounts. Sometimes the artist only do like maybe two or hundred prints of a certain item and that helps keep the price up because it say it's only a limited of prints. So you look for that, you look for at the amount of prints that the artist have made; you look at the quality of the prints 'cause sometimes you could just take a print and print it on your own scan, printer at home or you could take it to a professional frame printer, artist printer and get them printed out at the same size, as in maybe 18 X 24 and that's still kind of quite expensive for an artist to do that and they're trying to keep the same quality. So those are different aspects you can look for when you're looking for prints. Hope that helps you guys understand prints and what the artist go through to be able to sell their prints. Thank you so much."