Giclee Print Collection, Pop-Art Artist Prints By Doug Kemp
While I don’t like to consider myself a Pop-Artist, my son Luke disputes this. My artwork draws reference from personal experience, comic book art, film noir and gangster movies from the 1930s & 1940s. Eventually, all of my print work (Linocut & Silk screen) will be available as Giclee’s as limited signed editions. Unsigned copies may be available in due course.
On Giclee printing, I feel the Giclee print technique produces a better finish than other types of modern artist prints. Essentially, the process is similar to inkjet photo printers but with one big difference…the type of inks used. Standard inkjet prints are made using dye-based inks.
Whereas Giclee (pronounced “Glee say” or “Ge-clee”) uses pigment-based inks. By the nature of the process, specialist equipment is necessary.
Artist Prints – The Different Formats And Sizes.
The different limited edition print formats include Silkscreen, Linocut, Giclee Doug’s artist prints typically are in these sizes and other than the ‘mini prints’, are on a limited print run of a maximum of 75.
- Standard Print Size: 25.59″ x 23.62″ (65×60 cm)
- Medium Print Size: 20.08″ x 24.02″ (51×61 cm)
- Mini-Print Size: 12″ x 14″ (30×35 cm)
“To protect the art, all works on paper are transported to you rolled, protected in a secure tube.”
“Posted with love”
Doug Kemp
Doug Kemp Art Gallery Store – Art By Tube.
Giclee Prints, what is the Difference between Dye and pigmet based inks?
Dye-based inks used in standard inkjet printers, are far cheaper and can be mostly found in print cartridges you would typically find in most offices & homes. However, these do not come anywhere near the high quality required for Artist prints.
Pigment-based inks used in Giclee prints are made from pigment originating from organic synthesis, these are then encapsulated with a type of synthetic resin and suspended in a liquid. The corresponding molecules are much larger than for the dye-based inks and this provides a far better finish of the standard expected of an Artist print.
Giclee Print Process & Approach
My approach for producing Giclee Prints. Painted artwork either on paper on canvas is scanned or photographed in extremely high-resolution. Doing so often enables the individual paint brush strokes and textures to be recorded and reproduced in these limited edition artists prints.
Working closely with one of a few “master printers”, colour balances are tweaked and finalised prior to creating artist proofs which are used for my final approval. This technique for creating Giclee artwork, produces the sharpest detail and at the highest resolution, displaying my artwork in the best possible textured, full-colour on good quality heavy grade paper. Doug Kemp.
Giclee Artist Prints
Spelt correctly, Giclée is a French word for spray (little sprey!). This is a digital printing process in which a dedicated type of ink-jet printer is used with specialist inks to produce a high quality Art print. As an artist, I feel a Giclée print produces a better finish than other types of modern artist printing formats.
Linocut Artist Prints
A Linocut is a relief print that is produced like a woodcut but uses lino as the surface from which the design is carved as a template used for the printing. In making a Linocut, basically your design uses the raised (uncarved) areas for the different inks to print the same picture over and over.
Silkscreen Print Collection
Creating screen prints – The inks are forced through a mesh screen onto the printed surface. This enables certain areas of the screen template to be made impervious to the printing ink, in effect creating a stencil. The ink that is able to pass through forms the printed image.
