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"Giclée is, essentially, using an ink-jet printer. Silk screening is a much older technique. You draw your design on a piece of silk or other fabric using wax or other ink-resistant stuff. Then you put it against the thing you want to print on, squirt ink all over it, and rub it in. The ink goes through the silk but not the wax, so you get a picture (reverse from the original wax picture).
If you want multiple colors, you have to have one screen for each color and do one pass over the ink (making very sure that everything is aligned the way you want it."
"Silk screening is spreading paint across a screen that only allows the color to appear in certain spots. A piece of artwork that is many colors will require multiple screens to be done. Also silk screens usually take more hand effort, even if many machines are used. Depending what it is, silk screens are fairly collectible. Also since each piece of artwork done by a silk screen is done "individually", each is more unique and contain different colors/errors, making it more valuable. It's less of a fad than Giclee, and more of a respected type of work that will still retain it's value.
A Giclee is a digital fine art print. It can have very beautiful results, but it's sort of just the trendy "in" thing right now."
- Yeah, silk screen is totally justified. I would buy silk screens for lots of money, just not Giclées.Horp
- Friend of mine bought a £3000 Giclée print!!!Horp
- The internet agrees with Spooky :)Jaline
- No, way, Horp!??Jaline
- P.S. Not sure why I switch between "Spooky" and "Horp" all the time. I tend to stick with the original username of user.Jaline
- Yeah, An artist who I like but I cannot think of his name right now. Like Mark Ryden stuff...Horp
- Damn... what's his name. American. All fairy tales girls with spiders legs....Horp
- I'm not sure.Jaline
- Ray Caesar. Just came back to me.Horp