A giclée starts with a high resolution digital scan of the original artwork, accurately capturing the color, saturation, and contrast of the original. Then the image is printed on a canvas material by a special inkjet printer that sprays microscopic droplets of archival quality ink at millions of droplets per second. Instead of using 4 or 6 colors like your desktop inkjet printers, we use high-end wide format printers of 12 colors to accurately reproduce the rich and vibrant colors in the artwork. And a special UV resistant coating is applied to the canvas to help resist fading.

The canvas is stretched onto a wood framework [stretcher bars] just like original oils and acrylics. Then the artist enhances and embellishes the image with genuine oil paint, creating a "semi original" artwork with the look and feel of a hand-painted oil painting.