PAINTING over GICLEE ???

PAINTING over GICLEE print ???

I never dealt personally with giclee (there was no need for that before). But finally I need to print few.

We know that sometimes giclee prints come out with wrong colour rendering or contrast defects etc. Here a situation may arise when it'd be necessary to correct problems: i.e. to touch canvas here and there with brush & paint.

- Is there any need to prepare giclee surface for that? - Is there any need to cover print lightly with varnish or something (to protect print itself and to provide toothing?) - What should be done (if anything)?

FOR BOTH situations: 1) just for few PAINT touch-ups here and there? or 2) for painting the whole picture OVER GICLEE print?

I mean OIL PAINT, not acrylic.

Thank you.

Weaving the Conundrum

Assuming it's printed with ink, you probably are better off using similar ink for touch-ups. That having been said, you might want to visit a Thos Kincaid Center and see how they do the 'highlighting' on prints they sell of his works. I've never been to one of their outlets so don't know the answer.

Seems that nobody is using GICLEE prints ? Hmmm.

There were so many followers of new technology/equipment in visual arts, but when it comes to common thing as giclee, nobody is around to support it.

Nobody wants to share few secrets about working with GICLEE prints ?

Weaving the Conundrum

I have seen lots of giclees around, and some are 'hand-embellished'. So painting over them is common but I think it's usually in acrylics. I wouldn't trust them for oils - they're not primed and the oil could easily sink in and rot (or not sink in and peel off). If you have a printer that uses archival inks, and there aren't many, you could print directly on something like Fredrix canvas made for printers and then you'd know it's a primed surface.

I don't make reproductions of my work personally, so can't tell from firsthand experience. Sorry.