The Installation of the Canvas Wall Printing -
Recently we were commissioned to do an unusual project for a client. They wanted a small family art photo of their children reproduced into a wall mural for their home. Not a problem…unless the only thing we had to work with was a small original 8″x10″ black and white photo. We had no digital file and the final mural size requested was to be 14 feet long and 9 feet tall on canvas and to be applied directly to the wall, as in wallpapered to their wall. A new and different project for us indeed. We never wallpapered our work nor have we ever produced a final print of this size from such a small original photo print.
First we had to consider if the small black and white photo could in fact be enlarged to that size without completely falling apart as an image.
Then, secondly, we had to see if we could print the image in sections and piece them together because our largest fine art printer, the Epson 11880 (64 inch) would need to produce the image in three sections horizontally.
And finally, we had to find someone to give us advice on the installation.
Well, we proceeded to make a high resolution scan on our Epson 10000 flat bed fine art scanner. We scanned the image 8×10 at 2500 dpi. After saving the file we sized it to 14 feet x 9 feet and cleaned and tweaked the image until we felt we had the best result possible. Upon looking at the image on the monitor at actual size we were very please to see that the image looked amazing at such a tremendous size. After a few test prints for proofing we had it right. Our best was very good and now we were ready to print to canvas.
The fine art printer was to be put to the test. Each printed section was sized to result a 64″ x 168″ long image. One after the other the sections we made were coming off the Epson 11880 fine art printer at the highest resolution of 2880 dpi. They looked fabulous. Laying the canvas photo prints side by side and looking at the entire photo morphed from small 8″x10″ photo print to the final product of a photo print on canvas that spanned the wall at 14 feet x 9 feet was quite remarkable.
A Very Satisfied Client!
We then remembered that Gerardo’s uncle was an expert wallpaper artist and enlisted his recommendations and finally entrusted the print on canvas installation to him. The home had ceilings that were twenty feet tall and the scaffolding barely elevated to the place we had to install the canvas photo. Well, it’s nice to have someone that can be an expert at this type of work and instill the confidence that the final image would come together and make our clients happy. Success!
Take a look at the photos – you will see the process – from an original fine art photo to family pictures scanning and printing, to print on canvas, to the canvas giclee prints hung by an expert in their home. If you have any images that you might consider as wallpaper installed art or scanning fine art images or downloading files to us and printing any size on many mediums, canvas, fine art papers and more please call or email us. As artists ourselves we take pride in producing work that we can be proud of and you will love. We would be more than happy to assist you every step of the way.
All our best from PrintsGicleeShop.Com. Phone 305 282 9154. Ask for us, the owners, Gerardo Gonzalez-Quevedo or Mike Arnspiger
The opening of The International Cell Phone Photo Show at Artspace MAGQ, our gallery space at Prints Giclee Shop this past Friday evening was a great success. Representing artists from many different countries such as Spain, Great Britain (England and Ireland), France, Italy, Poland, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and the United States of America were shown with over two hundred cell phone images chosen by this juried exhibition. All of the images were sent to us via the internet, downloaded and printed here in our studio and readied for hanging in our gallery. All of the images that remain unsold will be mailed back to the artists. The images chosen can be seen on our website
