Charlene Collins Prints

Ghost Town of Hardman, Oregon

All unframed prints are $150. Each image is printed as a giclee, limited edition of 50, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Hardman Oregon I

Hardman Oregon II

Hardman Oregon III

Hardman Oregon IV

Hardman Oregon V

Hardman Oregon VI

Shipping and packaging
Per orderUS$ 15.00.
Delivery
Delivery usually takes 1 to 2 weeks from time of receipt of payment.
Payment
By check or money order only. Send an email to the artist at for the address.

Art Process

These images started out as photographs. From the photos I created Polaroid Transfers which I then scanned into my computer and manipulated in Photoshop. They were then enlarged and printed, as a limited edition, as giclees.

Printed on an Epson printer, with archival inks and Entrada paper. The paper is 20" x 24" with the image floating in the middle. The image size is 15 x 18.

I do not sell my images digitally. They are only available asa limited edition print, hard copy, giclees.

I do not grant any rights for reproducing my images.

What is a Giclée?

Commonly pronounced "zhee-clay," is an invented term for the process of making fine artprints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word “giclée”, from the French language word "gicleur" meaning "nozzle", was created by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The term, originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print.

Beside continued development of Iris prints, in the past few years, the word “giclée”, as a fine art term, has come to be associated with prints using fade resistant "archival" inks and the printers that use them. These printers use the CMYK color process but may have multiple cartridges for variations of each color allowing them to reach a larger color gamut.

Artists tend to use these types of "Giclée" printing processes to make limited edition high end reproductions of their original two dimensional artwork, photographs, or computer generated art. Giclée style prints are much more expensive on a “per print” basis than the traditional four color offset lithography process originally used to make such reproductions. Giclée style printing has the added advantage of allowing the artist to control every aspect of the image, its color, the substrate printed on, and even allows the artist to own and operate the printer itself. Because of this, Giclée style prints can technically be called “prints”, i.e. an image where the artist has a hand in actual production.

Charlene Collins