My FAIRYTALEKiDS prints are exclusively printed on real cotton canvas. The same canvas used to paint the original painting! Chosen exclusively due to its properties to best represent the original piece.

The Look and Feel of the Original!

A heavy, medium texture, cotton artist canvas typically used to wrap Gallery style canvas panels. Art prints of an original hand painted piece are ideal for this material.

The art print virtually looks and feels just like the original painting. Coated with a protective sealer which protects and enhances the colors.

The prints are done on a semi-gloss canvas consisting of a bright white, cotton canvas (19 mil; 350 g/m?), with a primed satin finish. A special resin coating holds the inks with high clarity.

Images are brilliant and well saturated, making this canvas an ideal media for fine art reproductions or studio portraits. The prints are unstretched and shipped rolled in a roll tube. Large volume unstretched print orders may be shipped flat.

FLEXIBLE HANGING OPTIONS

The unstretched prints have a 1 to 2" extra margin space around the printed area for handling, framing and/or stretching.   Just insert into any standard size picture frame.

For a more dramatic look, use a bigger size frame with a pre-cut mat. As each print is sealed for protection, you can frame it without the glass cover to show off the rich texture of the canvas.

STRETCHING & MOUNTING

The benefit of unstretched prints is that they offer the most flexibility to the customer in hanging preferences. The customer can also choose to have a local framer "gallery wrap" the print.  Standard Wrap is the normal method for small to mid size prints. The canvas is stretched and secured with staples to on the sides of the panel. Canvas stretches so a slight amount of print "bleed" may wrap over the sides. The advantage to stretching a print is that it adds support to the canvas so that it will not buckle or bend. It also prevents accidental creasing when handling.

We do not offer "gallery" style of stretching and mounting in which the printed area wraps all the way around the sides to the back. If you plan on having a print gallery wrapped, we recommend ordering an unstretched print. Please also make sure your framer that does the gallery wrapping is familiar with proper gallery wrapping techniques or they can damage the print or you will get a white crease along the edges.

QUALITY & LONGEVITY

Only the latest in artistic print technology is used to create your prints. In addition, unlike canvas reproductions of the past, the inks used are UV pigmented inks with an initial claim of 150 to 200 years. With proper care and not exposing the print to direct sunlight, your print is expected to last into future generations.

Because computer monitors, printers and scanners may have variations in settings, relatively small differences of appearance for hues and brightness levels may occur in some instances. The printing technology uses 6 colors so has a wider gamut of colors available then would be found with most printers.

COLOR QUALITY

The printing process uses UV pigmented inks engineered by HP. Six (6) different colors cartridges are used to get a wide array of colors and color range. These include Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Light Cyan and Light Magenta.

The UV inks are formulated to deliver the most brilliant, photo-quality images, and vivid, full-color graphics that are lightfast and durable - indoors and out. HP color layering technology layers multiple drops of ink in a single dot to product brilliant color prints that are clear and sharp, even close up.

WATERPROOF-NESS

The prints are produced with a water resistant ink system. This does not mean, however, that they are waterproof. In most cases, as long as the print is not overly saturated by a water based solution or a water based spray, the print will be okay. The semi-gloss canvas used is more water resistant than most.

My FAIRYTALEKiDS original and whimsically sweet paintings are one of a kind paintings.  While the piece is reproduced in other formats like prints so that everyone can enjoy them, you will never see the same painting again... not even a similar version.  

Paintings are available on either of two types of canvas depending on your preference...