embellishing a printed canvas

[doogey]

Hi
Does anybody Know anywhere that does embellishing of giclee prints on canvas to make them look more like oil paintings? also called over painting i think where you use an acrylic gel medium! any pointing in the right direction would be great!
Thank you
ps we're KT5 area north surrey/greater london

[prospero]

Are the prints take from oil paintings? If so they should look like oil paintings already. The use of texturing gel is a very old technique to make prints look like oils, but with modern giclees it's not really necessary IMHO. It's very rarely used nowadays. The protective coating applied to canvas giclees generally gives the surface the right sheen. Texture gel allows you to replicate heavy brushmarks, but on some work it can look very phoney.

Lion Picture Framing do several texturing gels. Some people have used artist's clear acrylic medium.

Never heard of anyone who offers to do this as a service.

[chris62]

Pretty certain that it would be down to the artist who did the original, that is how it is normally done

[prospero]

Pretty certain that it would be down to the artist who did the original, that is how it is normally done

Don't confuse this with varnishing Chris. As I say, it's an old technique. Even has a name - Oleograph. It was used from late Victorian times to produce faux oil paintings from prints on paper. I've seen some where the paper has been stuck to a stretched canvas and textured. Unfortunately, as they age and start to look a bit brown and mucky they look even more like an oil painting. Many folks get taken in by 'paintings' that have been in the family for years. Not until they try to sell them do they discover that Granny's painting is a print and not worth a lot.

It depends a lot on the nature of the image just how much texturing a print would work. I've seen some that look really bad. You really need to follow the brushwork very carefully. General random strokes give it the genjeral look, but don't bear close scrutiny.

just a thought..... With 3D printers on the up-and-up if you wanted to reproduce the heavy impasto of a painting you probably could. I've heard tell of such things but never seen one.

[chris62]

Liquid laminate for Giclee. But embellishment is usually done by the artist as he/she knows where to put it

[prospero]

Liquid laminate for Giclee. But embellishment is usually done by the artist as he/she knows where to put it

There are a few that I would love to tell exactly where.