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Lane Timothy I think since it's your photo and you painted on your canvas then it's your form of the way you want to make your art. There's nothing wrong about that. (Your techniques will likely evolve. Everyone's does.) Just begin and the inspiration will come. Feeling shame over how you do things with your original work is unnecessary. Nobody needs to "approve" of you. What they think is none of your concern. It's hard enough to modify our own thoughts, let alone the thoughts of others. Being honest to yourself doesn't mean you're on trial against every Tom, Dick and Harry. You don't have to reveal every method any more than any professional artist revealed theirs over time. Art is for you, don't feel bad if someone admires it. Get used to positive attention and realize it makes others feel good when you accept their praise. Think about how you'd feel if a cabinet maker debated you if you said, "hey, nice blanket chest" and they said, "well, I got the idea for the stain from Johny's shelves, chose different hinges than the original plan, used a different router for the edges, used barn boards instead of pine......" Hope you get my drift lol. If someone wants to buy your work cuz they'd like to see it on their wall, say thank you and pack it up nice for them:)) Who knows, maybe someday you'll turn into an abstract expressionist and you'll get to feel guilty over that! Leave the trials to the trial lawyers. Cheers from Ottawa, ON.

@@aremedyproject9569 thank you, you help me too. I mage a big print on canvas on my dear dog and I painted with oil...feel like "cheating" - Lane - after I read your comment, feel beter for me.Thanks again

i mean, ya, its cheeating if your the type that believes art has to just come out of your head. but at that point it would be cheating to also use the projector and one could say a reference immage. personally i treat paintings like music, doesnt matter what made the sound/music as long as it sounds good (to thoes who think electronic music isnt music). im a digital artiest, some would say thats cheating lol, sometimes i even have the program paint for me if i want to do a quick effect on a photograph without spending a few hours painting on top of it. so really just do what you want. its a smart idea too so keep at it

If it’s a giclee print on rag paper you can seal it with Golden acrylic gloss, satin, or Matte. Just brush it on, or roll it on and let it dry. I wouldn’t use a “varnish”. The Golden Acrylic clear coats do a great job of this.

Nathan Miller No, there's no issue with painting directly on that canvas with acrylic. The only real issue is that it's more expensive than raw canvas. If you really have to go that route, you might want to consider having your giclee printer make you a canvas with a digital underpainting on it. As long as you're paying giclee print prices for a raw canvas, you might as well use the process to your advantage and have the underpainting printed to save you some time and energy. We have people do this sometimes. As far as painting on the giclee canvas, if you don't like how it feels you can always add a coat of clear matte acrylic, so you're painting acrylic on acrylic. Sometimes the giclee coating on the canvas feels a little sticky to your brush. That's because the giclee coating is meant to take ink without the ink spreading, so when you paint on it directly sometimes it feels a little sticky - the paint sticks right away. Lastly, keep in mind that your canvas is pre-gessoed before it's stretched, so unlike raw canvas, it's not going to tighten up with a coat of gesso or by applying paint to the front side. So you need to stretch it tight to begin with.

Thank you so much for your response! I really appreciate it! Very helpful. :)

Sure, you can use any kind of adhesive. The trick is not getting the adhesive on the front of the gold, and on other things. But yeah, you can use different glues, adhesives...

We just buy off the shelf giltter

That's not a bad idea. Yes, you could do that.

Look up "Deckle Edge Ruler"

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MzX artists embellish and sign their own prints.

Sorry for the late reply. Was on vacation. That's Redd Walitzki. You can see her work @ www.candygears.com

yes of course. Rag paper is especially easy to sign and add embellishments. For photo papers gel pens work well for signing.

Thank you for your informed opinion on what fine art is and isn't. I'll keep that in mind.

To be specific, a giclée print is a "fine art print" created by using a specialized high resolution printer. Yes a giclée is in fact an "art print" but giclée prints stand apart with their extremely high level of quality (all depends where you get your prints done). Found this on Google 😍