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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I purchase a print?

College Art prints by Jane Blevins may be purchased by visiting a local gallery in your area or by contacting Samantha Blevins. At this time, we are unable to accept credit cards or take orders directly through our website.

How can I find a local gallery who carries College Art prints?

All galleries who currently carry College Art prints by Jane Blevins are listed on our  gallery page.

What is a lithograph?

Lithography is based on the principle that oil and water do not mix. Using oil-based ink or a grease crayon, an image is drawn on a flat stone or metal plate. Next, water is applied to the surface and is repelled by the areas where oil-based images have been drawn. The entire surface is then coated with an oil-based ink that adheres only to the areas drawn in oil, ink, or crayon. The image is then printed on paper. The popularity of this process grew because thousands of exact replicas could be made that were like drawings on paper, without degradation of the image.

Color lithography is essentially the same process as basic lithography. In this process, however, the application of each color is printed separately through careful alignment or registration. This process is typically done by a computer analysis, and is most frequently used in the production of posters and open edition prints. A Lithograph is the least manually intensive reproduction technique, and in turn, is not as expensive as a giclee. Although images can have a high resolution, archival quality, and excellent appearance, they will not have the same degree of color fastness, resolution or color density as a giclee.

What is a giclee?

Every sheet of archival art paper is hand mounted onto a printer drum. Precise calculations of hue, density and value are calibrated before printing.  This is sprayed through a printer nozzle with over four million droplets of pigment, similar to airbrush but much finer to produce the finest quality reproductions. The process to reproduce art in the past included poor quality dot patterns and some were far from the deep color, depth and contrast of the  original.

This is a costly process. However, only Giclee art prints have the widest range of colors to produce rich tones that are not available with any other reproduction process. These high resolution quality prints are in some cases better than the original painting. This can not be achieved using traditional Lithographs.

In terms of resolution, a Giclee print has the highest resolution and color range.

Giclee printmaking offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproductions technique. Giclee printmaking provides a luminosity and brilliance that represents the artist's original work better than any reproduction technique available today.

Each Limited Edition Watercolor Giclee print is individually personally signed and numbered by the artist with the next lowest available print edition number.

Canvas prints will then be stretched over wooden frame strips and fastened with a staple gun, there is a shrinking process to assure the canvas remains tightly secured.

When will Jane do the college or university I am interested in?

Each painting takes about 6 weeks for Jane to complete. For now, she is planning to paint local schools state-by-state, depending on the expressed demand by those interested. If you would like to suggest that your school or university be painted, please contact us.