Large Canvas Prints for the Colorado Uber Office

We just completed a set of 4 - 60" x 40" canvas prints for the Uber office here in Colorado. They found Colorado Josh | Fine Art Photography through his Facebook page and picked 4 of his images to put on their walls. They obviously have very good taste. We love making canvas prints and wanted to show everyone our process. I'll preface by saying we only use the very best giclée printing materials available on the market. Everything is handmade with great care. You are guaranteed to love it or we will give you a full refund.

Just a few of the test prints.

Every job starts with some small test prints to see if any color, contrast, or saturation adjustments need to be made. Also to see which of our printers is making the nicest print of each image. We do this for every image and don't charge for it. For this job our HP Z3100 was the right choice. We only use the highest quality canvas available and that is Breathing Color's Lyve canvas.

After a few small adjustments the prints were ready to roll. It's pretty magical watching these things come into the world. The next morning after the print fully dried; varnish was applied using a roller and Breathing Color's gorgeous Timeless Museum Grade Matte Giclée Varnish. The varnish preserves the print while protecting it from UV light. It also makes it waterproof and keeps the surface from cracking, scuffing, or fading. Incredibly important! Then Chris cut up some 1.5" thick stretcher bars to mount the canvas onto. We cut all of our bars here so we can do any size. Plus it's fun to use the mitre saw.

While the varnish was drying the bars were assembled to make the 4 60" x 40" frames. Very exciting! Corner supports were added to reinforce the frame so the print will maintain a nice tight stretch. Nothing makes us sadder than seeing a sagging canvas print out in the world. 

We are now ready to stretch the prints over the frames. This is done with the utmost of care to make sure the image is lined up just right and to avoid ripples ensuring that the canvas will look great years from now. We finish the corners with a really clean looking folding technique. This client chose to have the image "mirrored" onto the sides of the finished piece.  The other option is to "overflow" the image over the sides but then you lose a bit of the image from the front to the sides. Both of these techniques makes a finished product that is ready to hang without additional framing. Custom framing is expensive, but beautiful! If this were going into a frame it would be on thinner bars with plain white sides.

Our signature clean corner and the "Mirrored" side.

After that we put some hanging hardware on and they were ready to go! Here are some shots of the finished products. Human included to show scale. 

I don't think Josh wanted to let these ones go. And for $304 a piece he wouldn't have to.

We were even kind enough to deliver these for a very small fee. 

If you are in need of prints we would love to help you on your next project. Come stop by our gallery in Edgewater to see some samples and talk about your project. We even have access to lots of different artwork if you don't have something of your own to print.