It's Christmas time!

If you love art and also happen to love Westies then you should pay a visit to Candace Whittemore Lovely's website sometime. Candance is the talented artist whose work has been discussed on this blog before. Her paintings sell at big bucks at auctions and have, in some instances, been the object of desperate biding wars among collectors. They simply can't get enough. Well, Candace has come up with a solution for those who can not afford an original but still want to own a piece of it: Gliclée prints.

As she explains on her website, Giclée Prints are one of the most accurate methods of reproducing artwork today.

The technical part of making a Giclée print starts with a digital scan of the original art work .The digital scan is sent to the printer, where archival paper is fed into the printer and sprayed by six calibrated color streams of archival inks.

The result is a beautiful continuous tone print with the latest technology of printing hue, value, and intensity from an original work of art. After the Giclée is dry, it is then sprayed with protect coats for a life time of enjoyment.

"Christmas Westie Ornament" by Candace Whittemore Lovely. Reproduction (c.2008)

I never thought a Westie could be a theme collectors would care for...which leaves me wondering if I should start painting with the the nastiness I collected today when I rolled in the mud.