The Artist Makes Giclée Prints
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Any of the artist's paintings can be produced as a giclée print. The artist offers giclée prints of any of her work on the web site and of all her other works as well.

Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a French word meaning "a spraying of pigments." With the advent of giclée, the art of reproducing fine art works has become even more precise. Each piece of paper is carefully hand mounted onto a drum, which rotates during printing. Exact calculations of hue, value and density are achieved by directing over four million droplets of ink through sixty-four printer nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over three million possible colors). Giclées have the highest apparent resolution available today-- as high as 3,000 DPI-- because a variable dot size is used to create the density of the color on the print, instead of equally sized dots which can only achieve an effect of 600-1000 DPI. In addition, since no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and a color range that exceeds that of serigraphy. Displaying a full color spectrum, giclée prints capture every nuance of the original and have gained wide acceptance from artists and galleries throughout the world. Giclée prints can be produced in any size from four inches up to six feet.