Archival Inks:
Waterproof, acid-free, fade-resistant, heat-resistant inks noted for their purity and permanence.
Block Print: A relief-printing technique in which incisions made in a wood or linoleum block print white, and what is left in relief prints black.
Card Stock: Thick paper, usually between 65lbs. to 100lbs. “weight.”
Color Corrected: A reproduction that has been matched to the original piece in color, usually by the artist or photographer themselves.
Figurative Art: A representation, pictorial or sculptured, esp. of the human form. An individual bodily form or a person with reference to form or appearance.
Gallery Wrap (pictured): The image wraps all the way around the edges of the stretched canvas. Not surprisingly, gallery-wrapped canvases are rarely framed.
Giclée: Giclée, from French, commonly pronounced "zhee-clay," is the use of the ink-jet printing process for making fine art large format digital images. In the past few years, giclée, as a fine art reproduction technology, is mostly associated with Archival Pigmented inks and Ultra Chrome Inks (which are guaranteed to last up to 200 years).
Lambda Print: The highest quality digital reproduction.
Limited Edition: A limited number of signed and numbered reproductions whose value is enhanced by the fact there are only so many printed.
Lithograph: The original painting is photographed and the image is burned into four plates for a full color printing process. The ink comes from a roller on a printing press. High quality lithographs use a very fine dot screen on acid free paper with fade resistant inks.
Matte/Matting: A paper frame inside the larger outer frame.
Plein Air: En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air," and is particularly used to describe the act of painting in the outside environment rather than indoors (such as in a studio).
Semi-gloss Photo Paper: Paper with a slight shine, falling somewhere between a matte and full gloss.
Somerset Velvet Paper: Somerset Velvet is a delicately textured fine art paper engineered to give you the highest resolution and color saturation possible. Somerset Velvet is 100% cotton, acid-free paper with luxurious weight, texture, and finish.
Stretched Canvas: A canvas that has been mounted or “stretched” around a wooden frame and is ready for hanging or framing.
Substrate(s): The material on which the print or photograph is reproduced, usually paper or canvas.
Surrealistic: Having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic: Resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream."
Unstretched Canvas: “Loose” canvas that can be rolled up and mailed in a tube. Needs to be stretched before it can be hung on the wall.
Watercolor Paper: A heavier, usually off-white paper with a slightly rough texture.
Substrate(s) - An underlying layer; a substratum.
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