What does sold out at publisher mean?
What is a limited edition print?
What is a remarque?
What is a fine art canvas?
What is a textured canvas?
What is a giclée canvas?
What is a canvas transfer?
What is a fine art serigraph?
What is a serilith?
What is a fine art giclée?
What is a fine art lithograph?
What is a mixed media print
Sold out at publisher does not mean you can no longer purchase the piece of art. It does mean that the piece is no longer available from the publisher at the stated list price ("the primary market"). You can request our gallery to check on the availability of the piece you are interested in on the secondary market. We will look for the piece you are inquiring about and let you know whether or not it is available and what the current market price is for that piece. You can then decide whether or not you would like our gallery to obtain it for you.
What is a limited edition print?A limited edition print is created by a complex photo-mechanical process called offset lithography. This process is used to replicate original works of art onto paper. This process involves many steps.
While the industry standard for printing offset lithographs is often only four colors,
Some publishers, such as Greenwich Workshop, routinely add additional touch colors resulting in
exceptional color, clarity, and fidelity to the orginal painting.
In addition, they collaborate closely with the artist during the color proofing and correcting process.
Only when the artist is satisfied is the print edition finally run and each print personally approved with the
artist's signature - a process which takes many months from start to finish.
The result is a limited edition fine art print which, if properly cared for, can be treasured and enjoyed for
generations.
An example is
Flight of the Fablemaker
by James C. Christensen.
A remarque is an artist's small original sketch. A remarque is usually related to an art print - a different perspective on something within the print or to highlight something within the print with additional detail. The remarque may be in pencil or in color.
To create a fine-art canvas, offset lithographic printing is applied directly to the canvas using nearly the exact techniques by which offset lithographics prints are created. The process has been adapted for printing in this medium with excellent results. And, like an original painting, a fine art canvas offers the benefit of framing without glass. Generally, texture in this process comes from the canvas itself and any additional original painting and enhancements to the canvas readily stand out.
From time-to-time, some publisher's artists, such as Greenwich Workshop artists, will hand-paint on each canvas, making each one an original. Greenwhich Workshop does not use a studio approach; all hand-painting is done personally by the artist.
This unique technique replicates the look and feel of an original painting, including canvas texture and
the artist's original brushstrokes.
The image is first printed by offset lithography with oil-based inks on a thick piece of oil-based material.
A mold of the original painting can be used as a guide to create a feeling of brushstrokes, or the artist can
re-create the brushstrokes him or herself.
The mold is used with heat and pressure to bond the printed image to artist-quality canvas.
An example is
Council of Chiefs
by Howard Terpning.
This technique is also referred to as Iris printing, after the brand-name of a particular ink-jet printer, which is used to create limited editions on canvas as well as paper. Each second, the ink-jet printer produces over four million extremely fine droplets of ink that combine to form more than two thousand shades of color resulting in an image of execptional clarity and color fidelity.
Canvas transfer is a generic term which typically refers to a chemical process by which inks are lifted from the original medium (usually paper) to another (canvas). Most inks, papers, and printing processes were not designed for this use, so there can be a breakdown in color. Image fidelity is difficult to control. Some publishers, such as Greenwich Workshop, do not use this method.
To create a serigraph is an exacting process.
Also commonly known as silk screening,
serigraphy is a time-honored technique, based on stenciling, for creating prints by hand.
Ink or paint is carefully brushed through a fine fabric screen, portions of which have been masked for
impermeability.
For each color, a different portion of the screen must be masked and each color must be allowed to dry
before the next is applied.
Masking stencils representing up to 100 individual colors, created by a "chromist," are embedded into
the fabric, and ink is passed through a squeegee on the paper creating a texture on the surface.
Serigraphs are best known for rich and vibrant color.
Greenwich Workshop creates their serigraphs from the original painting, and the artist can see and adjust the
evolution of the colors through many proofing stages.
The depth of color in the resulting fine art serigraph is almost luminous.
An example is
Intimacy
by Thomas Blackshear II. More than 120 hand-applied colors were used to produce this serigraph.
This is a Greenwich Workshop proprietary process which combines the wonderful, soft line
quality and tonal gradations of a lithograph with the brilliant color and textural range
of serigraphy.
An example is
The Red Flute
by Ken Riley.
These are created by specialized printmakers who have customized ink-jet technology specifically for fine art.
This technique is also called Iris Printing,
after the brand-name of the particular ink-jet printer.
Each second, the ink-jet printer produces over four million droplets of ink that combine to form more than two
thousand shades of color.
An example is
Blackfoot Ceremonial Headdress
by James Bama. This was printed on the same archival watercolor paper that Bama used for the original painting
and must be treated carefully. Greenwich Workshop giclée prints on paper are identified by the chop marks
of the printer and The Greenwich Workshop.
Fine-art lithographs are created by hand in a process that dates back to the 18th century and is the origin
of the modern offset lithographic process.
A separate plate is used to print each color (33 in the example, Summer Mist) and
each plate is hand-drawn by the artist or a chromiste.
The plates are printed one at a time and each color is allowed to dry before the next one is printed, giving
the artist an opportunity to see how the colors are building and to make changes, if necessary.
An example is
Summer Mist
by Paul Landry. A Greenwich Workshop fine art lithograph is published from an original painting;
an original lithograph is created directly on the plates without an origianl painting as a guide.
The Greenwich Workshop does not overlook this distinction.
This is a print that has been created with a variety of traditional print-making processes to best express
the artist's work.
An example is
Summer Potpourri
by Paul Landry.