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Brad and John checking a canvas Giclée as it comes off the printer |
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The Canada West Collection is dedicated to promoting and exporting to the world the art, culture and history of Canada's two westernmost provinces, Alberta and British Columbia.My son Brad, a research engineer and project manager for many years with Mac-Blo Research, has decided to work with me full time on this project. Here we are examining a Giclée as it comes off one of our Epson wide format printers. During the next several years we are borrowing back a few of the more than 1200 paintings I've painted to produce limited edition Giclées. In addition we will soon introduce limited editions of some of my fine art photography and digital collages. Please see the page What is Original? for an explanation of each. Publishing details
Giclée (pronounced Gee'clay) is a French term meaning to spray. In order to guarantee the quality of the finished canvases we print our own Giclées. As I travel throughout Western Canada doing photography and research I carry with me a mobile photo lab so that I can photograph any of my old paintings that I run across. The new ink sets of the current wide format Giclée printers provide the ultimate fine art printing technology available today. When printed on the water resistant canvas and fine art papers we use the manufacturer and third-party testing labs report that print permanence ratings are up to 200 years for colour and 200+ years for black and white. Each print includes a Certificate of Authenticity that describes the edition size, number of artist's proofs, year of printing, printing process, ink, type of paper, light fastness, etc. John Crittenden
Important noticeArtPrintsCanada.ca, a dynamic e-commerce Website for the sale of our limited editions, will be online soon. Until then we ask that anyone who is interested in purchasing any of our work, either wholesale or retail, to please Contact us, check the appropriate checkbox, and we will email our latest price list to you.
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