52 Pieces Project by Renee Coates

Pablo Picasso once said, “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”  If that is true then Renee Coates (www.reneecoates.com) is making an original entry each week.  After building success as an artist Coates wanted art lovers who wouldn’t usually have the opportunity to own one of her original prints, to have the chance to. That is how 52 pieces was born.

The 52 pieces project allows admirers of Coates art to spend a few hundred dollars rather than a couple thousand on an original piece. Every week Coates creates an original 6” x 6” oil painting and puts it on eBay for anyone to bid on.  Each month Coates changes up the theme for her weekly paintings. 

Coates paintings feature anything from vibrant landscape paintings to simple yet elegant paintings of fruits.  Pieces go online every Sunday at 11:52 p.m. EST.  If you don’t win the bidding don’t worry, you can still buy a Archival giclee print on on 7”x7” water color paper starting at $1.  For more information go to www.52pieces.com.

--Todd Henry

"Printing Of Canvas" Email Scam from nickjns73@gmail.com

We usually do not get too many art printing scams or giclee printing scams but we just received one tonight.

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from: nickjns73 -- nickjns73@gmail.com
to: company01@sympatico.ca
date: Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM
subject: Printing Of Canvas
signed-by gmail.com

February 8th, 2009 8:13 PM (2 hours ago)

Hello
Attached is my art-work for this project. However i want the canvas photo printed with the following specs,

1. Measures 8x10
2. Provide quote on 1000 and 2000 Copies
4. Do u accept credit card.

note:
IF YOU PRINT ANYTHING APART FROM THIS LET ME KNOW
God Bless you - please quote according

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The Comic Sans was preserved from the original email for the true scam feeling. This scammer didn't even bother to send it to the right email (we were on the BCC list, along with I'm sure a whole lot of other printing companies). There was no attachment to the email. We have also never heard from this person before.

This e-mail does not even deserve a reply.

Stay Safe,

Michael

Giclee Camera Capture System for Fine Art

If you are looking for a solution for photographing your artwork, check out the Giclee camera capture systems on the DTG Web site. They have common cameras for photographing fine art in order to make reproductions.

http://www.dtgweb.com/solutions/

Camera kits and bundles start at just under $34,000. Output options go as high as 39 Mega pixels.



They also offer a PDF of some of their solutions available at:

http://www.dtgweb.com/solutions/DTG_GICLEE_%20Solutions.pdf

Giclee Seminar - Tomorrow in Chicagoland (Free!)

IT supplies is hosting a Giclee seminar tomorrow (May 16th, 2007) in Schaumburg, (NW suburb of Chicago). Its free, appears to be sponsered by Epson, and will feature local artists showing Giclee tips, tricks, and a basic overview of the Giclee process. Its running from 1PM - 7PM, I will try and catch the end of it if I can get back from the Adobe CS3 Conference in time (unfortunately, not Free). Should be a good time.

More info - http://www.itsupplies.com/GicleeInvitation.html