The Sh!~@# comes down on giclee

[Andymac]

Some interesting stories from the Vancouver Sun by their local stock and financial fraud reporter. This guy is always after swindlers and stock scam artists - here he gets going on artists using giclees to defraud the art buying public.

If you've got time read the stories in order, cause the last one was front page yesterday

1. from 2 weeks ago
When a painting seems picture-perfect ...

2. from last saturday
Now we have seven ways to spell fraud

3. yesterday's paper

Gold-medal painting too lifelike for some

[IVARTON]

71k? someone has to die.

[Barry Obama]

'working up the light'

I will have to remember that.

I think I am ging to try out this here gickle thing myself.

[Andymac]

Here's the cover from yesterday with the watercolour painting they are talking about

Vancouver Sun Digital

[l.stalions]

I want tiny brushes made by an old guy in Hungary.

[Josh Rickun]

Here's the cover from yesterday with the watercolour painting they are talking about

Vancouver Sun Digital

can't find it. wana see it.

[Andymac]

can't find it. wana see it.

worked for me. find Nov 26 cover page.

[j]

I couldn't see it either but heres a different painting. It totally looks like she used the magic wand tool around the hair in the lower left corner.

[squeegeethree]

When I started printing I would do these incredible screen prints basically exactly duplicating a painting. We would draw out each color and hand mix every color until it exactly mixed the artists paint. It was fun. We'd even break down the textures and differences in gloss. Sometimes we'd even be able to fool the artist at the end. We were giving the people what they wanted, an exact reproduction. The key difference was they were never sold as the original piece.

[dspring]

I couldn't see it either but heres a different painting. It totally looks like she used the magic wand tool around the hair in the lower left corner.

yeah.. it's all chunky and skipped in places