When buying an oil painting on eBay you should know the differance between a 100% hand painted oil painting and a Machine Giclee painting.

What is a 100% Hand Painted Oil Painting?

A 100% Hand Painted oil painting is painted by hand by an artist. There are no machines involved when painting their masterpiece.

What is a Machine Giclee?

A giclee (zhee-CLAY) is an individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction done on a special large format printer. Giclees are produced from digital scans of existing artwork. Also, since many artists now produce only digital art, there is no "original" that can be hung on a wall. Giclees solve that problem, while creating a whole new vibrant medium for art.

Giclees can be printed on any number of media, from canvas to watercolor paper to transparent acetates. Giclees are superior to traditional lithography in several ways. The colors are brighter, last longer, and are so high-resolution that they are virtually continuous tone, rather than tiny dots. The range, or "gamut" of color for giclees is far beyond that of lithography, and details are crisper.

Giclees were originally developed as a proofing system for lithograph printing presses, but it became apparent that the presses were having a hard time delivering the quality and color of the giclee proofs. They evolved into the new darlings of the art world. They are coveted by collectors for their fidelity and quality, and desired by galleries because they don't have to be produced in huge quantities with their large layout of capital and storage.

When choosing a painting you now know the differnace between 100% hand painted oil painting and a Machine Giclee painting.

You can find our auctions here at Art Value on eBay, our company only sells top quality 100% Hand Painted oil paintings!