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Original Watercolor - Title - "The Alamo"
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The most famous of the five missions in San Antonio. This original watercolor is framed in a very nice, rustic, wood frame (outside measurements are 34.5" X 34.5") with a nice rust colored suede matting. I unscrewed my head about three turns and this is what I came up with - I like all the bright colors. I now have my first "Giclee'" print and it is of the Alamo picture above. It is very close to the original and printed on the same watercolor paper that I did the original on (d'Arches, 140 lb., cold pressed paper). If you don't know what a Giclee' print is, it is the "state of the art" right now in printmaking. Giclee' prints are sharper, the colors more precise and deeper than the usual four color offset lithography prints, and the inks used in this process are longer lasting than that used in lithographs. You can hold the original and Giclee' print side by side and it is hard to tell the print from the original. The print of the Alamo is 22" X 22" (image size 21" X 21"). The unmatted, unframed print cost is $200 (Framed and double matted, in a metal frame is - 28" X 28" is $ 325) - price for a print in the same size framed as the original and suede mat is $ 550. This is more expensive than the lithographic prints I have, but the Giclee' process is much more expensive than the lithographic process, but the results are well worth the increase in print price. I also now have smaller giclee' reproductions of the Alamo. They are 16" X 16" and the prints alone sell for $ 170 and they too look great in the rust colored suede mat described above. The small reproductions, framed in a wood frame, are $ 225. I have also framed the Alamo in a blue and a green suede mate that also look good. |
