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"SLIPPING INTO THE TIMBER" Giclee
Terry Doughty, Wildlife Artist
TERRY DOUGHTY WILDLIFE ART
W260N9429 State Road 164, Colgate, WI 53017
262-820-0332
Giclee
French meaning "a spraying of ink"
Giclee (pronounced "zhee-clay")
offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and
richness of colors.
Integrating many of
the best features of originals and lithographs,
giclees are digitally imaged prints of original
artwork on canvas or archival paper.
Fine art printing has
become even more precise with the advent of the
revolutionary giclee printing process. In the giclee
process, a fine stream of ink is sprayed onto
archival art paper or canvas. Exact calculation of
hue, value and density direct the ink from four
nozzles. This produces a combination of 512
chromatic changes (with over three million colors
possible of highly saturated, non-toxic water-based
ink). Since no screens are used in giclee printing,
the prints have a higher resolution than lithographs
and the dynamic color range is greater than
serigraphy.
Giclee print making
provides a luminosity and brilliance that represent
the artist's original work better than any
reproduction technique available today. Offset
lithography (commercial printing) is limited to the
four-color process and is normally printed on 80/100
pound coated stock paper. This does not give the
same quality of a giclee print.
How to Care for
Giclee Prints and Canvases
Giclee canvases and prints should be treated like
any other work of art. Prints should be protected
from moisture and extreme exposure to direct
sunlight. When framing giclee prints, we highly
recommend using a conservation glass that filters at
least 97% of the UV rays.
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