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Fine Art Print or Canvas Stretched? What is the difference between fine art print and canvas stretched? Is the quality different, the texture? Is it worth the extra money for canvas stretched?

Looking for an Australian company that can do fine art prints from my artwork.? If I scan or take photographs of my artworks (paintings/drawings etc), where can I have fine art prints made? I want the prints to be on art paper/cardstock, (not photo prints or canvas.) I'd like to be able to do it all online.

Canvas giclee or fine art print (foil embossed)? I'm going to buy a print for my girlfriend - a Klimt. However, I'm not sure which kind of print to go for. I tend to think that canvas prints try too hard to look like an original. But would it look better? Hmmm! Thanks for any answers!

please suggest home printers for printing on fine art papers Urgent? I have been using an Epson CX5900 and it has worked well up until now with printing on canvas made for inkjet printers. Now every piece jams, or prints only left side of picture.Maybe I've broken the Epson? I teach art and need to print off my students work by this week. Help! Can anyone suggest an inkjet printer that will take A4 fine art papers particularly canvas made for Inkjet Canvas made by Fredrix. Please help I'm going mad here.

Where can I get fine art prints made? I have a lot of original paintings on canvas and wood that I would like to get transfered into prints. Does anyone know where I can get this done in the Orange County, CA / Los Angeles area? Thanks!

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Advice on website re-design? Hello I have a website selling canvas art and fine art canvas prints. I am considering changing elements of the design and the text on the homepage. Recently, I have been getting a lot of traffic (compared to the site's early days). However, while I know that conversion rates are never going to be high - mine are exceptionally low! Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what may be putting people off, any barriers to sale... http://www.espiritoart.com/index2.php I understand today's economy isn't the best for what I suppose would be 'luxury' items, but I do know some other people in the same field who seem to be doing quite well with inferior products. Thanks a lot! matt

about printing my digital art on canvases? i would like to print a digital painting on a canvases, for that fine art look. i checked some websites and seems to be a bit costly... my question is are there any places that can print on smaller canvases for cheaper maybe 4x4"? i know thats small but im giving these as presents for my friends this year, and im not one to brag but i have a couple of friends, cause the point of me giving them paintings was to save money, but at the same time give something personal and nice looking... any help is appreciated, thank you

Van Dyke Brown Prints on Raw or Primed Canvas? In my fine art photography class, we are dealing with alternative developing and printing processes, so far we have covered cyanotypes and Van Dyke Brown prints. We are encouraged to use different materials to print on and canvas was suggested. I really wanted to try to make a print on a stretched square of canvas with a Holga negative, but was informed by my instructor that acrylic gesso primed canvas will not work as it will not absorb the Van Dyke solution and the image would just wash off in the rinse after development. I have seen conflicting arguments online as to the veracity of my instructor's claim. Some say that raw canvas will absorb and "bleed" much like marker on paper, leaving a very washed out, indistinguishable, and dull look. I would really like to save myself time and money by not purchasing extra materials that I may have no use for. Will a primed canvas square work for a Van Dyke, or for that matter a cyanotype? Thanks!

How can I get (affordable) prints made of my original artwork? I've started painting again - mostly acrylics on canvas about 10 inches x 10 inches. I want to sell prints of my paintings and asked a fellow artist how she made her prints. She recommended an Epson printer that cost over $1000. And archival paper and ink. I can't afford that. At all. And online fine art printing costs upward into 3 digits after they scan and do all they do. So, I think there has to be a better (meaning cheaper) way. I just want a nice copy, maybe on cardstock, of my paintings with enough quality to sell. Any artists out there with a solution??

Where can I go in Columbus, OH to get quality prints of my artwork? I have a lot of paintings and digital art that I would like to get smallish prints made of (5x7 to 11x14). I can do the scanning part, but I don't know where to go to get prints made. I'd like to find a place that offers heavy weight papers or canvas like material and will print at a somewhat fine art quality-- something above Fedex but not anything like museum quality work. I would prefer to find a shop somewhere in Columbus, but my searches aren't turning anything up. If you don't know of anything in Columbus, OH, what kinds of things should I search for in order to find a place nearby? I will love you forever for any help.

How much should my artworks be sold for? I have recently started selling canvas giclée prints of my acrylic fine art paintings in a project with my son (who designed the website). I don't know how to price my work, not having done this before. My collection is shown below: - http://www.espiritoart.com/collections/6/fine-art.html I hope you like the work, but even if you don't can you pretend you do and think how much you would pay for it! The website is in GB Pounds, so for information, £1 is about $1.5. The products themselves are giclee canvas prints stretched over wooden bars in various sizes. I would appreciate any feedback. This project has just really started and I have asked a few questions recently on similar topics, so I would like to thank everyone in advance who makes a contribution. Thank you!!! Sorry - you need to click on the artworks to discover their current price level...

How do I get thid get this effect on a photo print? http://web.mac.com/kvojnar/Site_2/ArtWorks.html#7 I recently came upon this Kamil Vojnars' work and I loved it. I want to learn how to get the same aging / tinting effect. I got the following Information for the web page: It’s photographs, printed on thin Japanese paper, mounted to canvas or printed on heavy Epson, Ultra smooth Fine Art Paper, painted on lightly with oils and varnished with wax. But I wanted to know if some one can give me some clearer steps. Also I'm going to be getting supplies at www.dickblick.com so if you can point out some of the things I will need that would be great. I'm more interested in the painting and varnishing part.

worried about my boyfriends birthday? my boyfriend has been exrememly good to me, weve been together for 5 months for christmas he bought me a nikon, my birthday, a really nice print of art work from my favorite artists, and Valentines day i got roses and a very special mix cd. His birthday-isnt till April but i want to do something special, i'm a fine arts major and i was thinking it would be a cool idea if i painted him a portrait of Kanye West he loves his music, i already made him a painting of the logo from 3OH!3, but the Kanye one is going to be much more in depth. im inspired by : http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c198/Jenny_Oh_No/Kanye-west-8paint.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c198/Jenny_Oh_No/WESTinNYC.jpg acrylic paint, 16X20 canvas, good idea or? should i find something else

wht do u think bout this ppl? From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential innovations: (1) The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic “qahwa” became the Turkish “kahve” then the Italian “caffé” and then English “coffee”. (2) The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word “qamara” for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. (3) A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe — where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century — and eastward as far as Japan. The word “rook” comes from the Persian “rukh”, which means chariot. (4) A thousand years before the Wright brothers, a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn’t. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles’ feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing — concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. (5) Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders’ most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. (6) Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today — liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. (7) The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock. (8) Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. However, it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders’ metal armour and was an effective form of insulation — so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland. (9) The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe’s Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe’s castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world’s — with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. The architect of Henry V’s castle was a Muslim. (10) Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslim doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today. (11) The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe. (12) The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it. (13) The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action. (14) The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi’ s book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi’s discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology. (15) Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal — soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas). (16) Carpets were regarded as part of paradise by mediaeval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam’s non-representationa l art. In contrast, Europe’s floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were “covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned”. Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly. (17) The modern cheque comes from the Arabic “saqq”, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad. (18) By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, “is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth”. It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth’s circumference to be 40, 253.4km — less than 200km out. Al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139. (19) Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a “self-moving and combusting egg”, and a torpedo — a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up. (20) Mediaeval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip