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What's New!
We have gotten in lots of new work. Here are a few examples.
Little Guys
NGlassworks
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Giclee Prints
About Giclee Printing
Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to squirt".
The term "giclee print" connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction.
Giclee prints are created typically using professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets. Giclee prints are sometimes mistakenly referred to as Iris prints, which are 4-Color ink-jet prints from a printer pioneered in the late 1970s by Iris Graphics.
Giclee prints are advantageous to artists who do not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as needed, or on-demand. Once an image is digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal effort and reasonable cost. The prohibitive up-front cost of mass production for an edition is eliminated. Archived files will not deteriorate in quality as negatives and film inherently do. Another tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital images can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client.
The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.
Numerous examples of giclee prints can be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs, New York, Phillips de Pury & Company.)
©1997-2008 Giclée Print Net, Inc.
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Furry Friends
Django
Our good friend Deb Nickell was in visiting with her furry friend Django the other day. Deb owns a great store called "Cozy" in Durham, NC. Django loves riding in his basket with Deb on her bicycle.
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Events
What's happening.
Don't miss the 22nd Annual North Carolina Seafood Festival
"Catch the Excitement"
October 3-5, 2008
Morehead City Waterfront.
Free To The Public
* Children's Area
* Rides
* Fireworks
* Food, arts & crafts, and commercial vendors
* Sporting Events
* Navy Ship - FREE Tours
* FREE Admission
* FREE Parking
* FREE Entertainment
* Visit the new: Cooking with the Chefs:
Learn It, Taste It, Love It! |
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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| Greetings!
The summer is winding down.... but fall is the most beautiful time of the year in Beaufort.
We'd like to introduce you to California jeweler Sarah Graham, who works in 18k white, yellow, and rose gold combined with blackened steel and diamonds. We are also featuring local artist Linda Werthwein, who beautifully interperets our area in oil, pastels and watercolor. |
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| Sarah Graham
Sarah Graham designs evocative jewelry by applying original artistry and fashions it with the traditional methods underlying old-world craftsmanship.
She brings her jewelry to the marketplace with client insightfulness and a superb grounding in business and customer service skills.
The jewelry is subtly feminine yet substantial; unique yet universal in appeal.
 Sarah's jewelry pushes the boundaries of convention through her use of the arresting contrasts inherent in the juxtaposition of 18 karat gold and blackened steel; of black, white and cognac diamonds; of Akoya and Tahitian Pearls. It carries strong tones of thoughtfulness, attention to detail, quality, and timelessness. Her signature combination of black, white, and gold colors immediately identifies the artist. Celebrities such as Sharon Stone and Kim Basinger own her jewelry.
The inspiration for her originality of design and materials is grounded in Nature as reflected by the labeling of her major product lines as: Manzanita; Pebbles; Stepping Stones; Oyster; Conifer and her line of Bridal rings - Kyoto, Bamboo, Leaf, and River Rock. Each piece speaks to its name-source. Sarah's process of design and construction of prototype models (she spends days experimenting with each new design piece) is grounded in one of the cardinal virtues found in Nature - that of patience.
 Sarah painstakingly perfected her old-world craftsmanship by serving as an unpaid apprentice for two rigorous years under a master goldsmith in Carmel, California. She then became a bench jeweler for six years until she launched Sarah Graham Metalsmithing in 2000. Her combination of inspired design and exquisite materials with superior workmanship results in a collection of jewelry that is both bold and daring without sacrificing the elegance and sophistication that assure an ageless quality. The jewelry is calm, serene, and graceful, qualities that together generate feelings of subtle excitement in both the wearer and the viewer.
 Sarah sees her prototypical customer as a strong, accomplished woman with graceful, natural beauty - a woman who wants her jewelry to display her self-confidence in taste and style and to subtly command attention whether worn with everyday attire or evening elegance. Sarah's jewelry delivers just that. Sarah prepared herself for the marketplace by studying the jewelry of the world in museums, galleries, and stores for two years in North, Central, and South America, Europe, Africa and India. She earned a B.S. in International Business at the University of San Diego. She learned customer service and supported herself as a student and apprentice by being a waitress in tens of restaurants (perhaps the ultimate baptism for customer care) across the country.
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Linda Werthwein
 For Linda Werthwein, painting is a process as rhythmic as dance, liberating form and color. Her interest in coastal scenery, wild horses and movement imagery emerges in oils, pastels, mixed media and watercolor.
Strongly influenced by the ocean, coastal North Carolina, and the Caribbean, her works emanate with color, rhythm and light.
Linda received an MFA in painting and MAEd in Art Education from East Carolina University. She has rendered commission work for private, corporate, liturgical, university, and physician spaces. Linda's paintings can be found in collections internationally from Dublin to Singapore, Oahu to the Channel Islands, Belize to St. Maarten, and nationally from San Diego to Minneapolis and Key West to New York. Her work is featured in exhibitions and galleries in Coastal North Carolina and in the Caribbean including Handscapes Gallery and Mattie King Davis Galleries in Beaufort, NC and Le Cafe Des Arts in Nevis and Devonish Art Gallery in Anguilla, British West Indies.
Recent exhibitions include the Anguilla International Art Festival, Eva Wilkins Gallery in Nevis, Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery in St.Maarten, The Equestrian Exhibition at the Barrington Illinois Arts Council, the Paramount Theatre Art Exhibition in Seattle, WA, and Janisch Studio in San Diego.
Emphasizing personal expression, Linda has taught painting to a wide range of students from preschool to the university level. She also enjoys teaching people with learning disabilities and inmates in maximum security prisons. In the Islands, Linda has worked as a missionary resource teacher for the hearing impaired. Linda enjoys helping to release the creative energy inherent in all of us.
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Fall Hours
Monday thru Saturday
10am to 6pm
Sunday 12pm to 5pm
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We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and hope you will come and see us....enjoy the view from our back porch.
All the best from
Alison, Jill, Kate, Linda, Sharon, Ann, and Betty
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