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Featured Artist: Mary-Catheryn Baker
Mary-Catheryn is the founder of Copper Corners Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She creates her work with a focus on how art can influence a home. Coming from a background of artists in her family, she began painting with the intention to enhance her own home with artwork that she felt a connection to. Her…
Featured Artist: Eana Agopian
Eana Agoean is an artist, printmaker based in Southwest Michigan. She studied art education and fine art photography at Western Michigan University’s Gwen Frostic School of Art, followed by a seven year stint organizing art, music and food related events in and around Kalamazoo, Michigan’s vibrant cultural scene. In May of 2016 she graduated from Kendall College…
Featured Artist: Bridgette McGee
Bridgette McGee is a talented young artist with a diverse set of skills. Both her incredibly detailed ink drawings and her colorful and stylized illustrations show deep understanding and control of her media. Add to that an impressive command of textile design and the demanding medium of batik and you’ve got an extraordinarily well-rounded artist!
Featured Artist: Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is a photographic artist from Yuba City, California. His work is influenced by the Post-Impressionist Art he studied in college. Here\’s how he describes the process he uses to create his compelling and ethereal landscapes and portraits: I begin by taking numerous photographs and studying what I have captured. I look closely at…
Featured Artist: Ryan Hay
Ryan Hay is a Grand Rapids, Michigan, based musician, poet, and abstract painter. He needed six prints quick for a pop-up exhibit at the Neighbor Gallery. We turned his order around in less than a day!
Featured Artist: Jessy Poole
Jessy Poole first learned of Grand River Giclee through our advertisement on artfairinsiders.com. She says, “After ordering prints from other companies to compare quality, I chose Grand River Giclee. They had the best prices for the pigment based printing that I was searching for.” Jessy turned to us to make several sets of her ABC…
Advanced Image Processing Service
Matt Thomas prudently ordered a reference print of his photograph of Elk in early morning light before ordering the large canvas he was interested in. Based on this first print, he asked us to make adjustments–particularly to lighten the shadowed area on the right side of the image. This required a bit more than the…
Polarized Lighting
One of the biggest challenges in photographing artwork is eliminating glare. This is less of a problem when photographing matte surfaced work like watercolor paintings, but can be a real problem with work that has an inherent sheen. There are several strategies that can be used to eliminate glare. If you are using artificial light,…
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