Archival Arts Impressions

     I know everyone has been urgently anticipating the launch of our new art marketplace. I am probably more anxious than anyone!  I just wanted to give everyone an update on the status.  After many heartbreaking setbacks, it finally feels like the site will be a reality somewhere around the end of the year.  Most of the capabilities I wanted to implement will be fully functional, ie: searching the database by many categories, choice of basic framing with 10 different colors, and prints offered in sizes proportional to the original. There will also be some very nice capabilities available for our artists whether you want to sell on the public gallery or not. You will be able to see your portfolio of scanned images, download customized files for web and shows, see orders placed on the public gallery and order prints with our new online ordering system.  (Please note that if you have not ordered anything in the past couple years, your images may not be on the site, but if you are intere

PLEASE SHARE THIS BLOG POST WITH OTHER ARTISTS!!!      Well it is almost a year after the pandemic hit and we are finally making the online gallery a reality! For many years, I tried and tried to come up with new products and services like printing on fabric, making greeting cards and designing books, but honestly these services were all very costly in both time and money and didn't profit enough to make them worthwhile. Just a few months ago, I finally realized that it wasn't new products we needed, I just needed to re-focus on the reason we are in business - to help artists sell their art and educate the world about our process. For years, many artists asked me to help them create a website. I had to decline because it takes a great deal of time to make a website and I was focused on creating products and running Archival Arts. Now I am laser focused on creating an online marketplace for our artists. But if I am going to do this, it has to be good.. really good! It has to be

     With the new year, Archival Arts is introducing a new watercolor paper that will be used as our standard textured watercolor paper. This change has been years in the making, starting when Hahnumuhle discontinued offering the 200ft rolls of William Turner paper we have been using for over 16 years. We have had a great run with Hahnemuhle papers. They are very high quality and consistently reproduce better than most other papers in the fine art reproduction market. The one complaint we and some of our customers have with the William Turner paper in particular is the flaking that occurs in the ink layer. For most prints, it is not apparent, however if there is great deal of solid, dark coverage, it is almost impossible to prevent the print from getting small specks of white due to the paper flaking. This is not really a defect of the paper as much as it is a result of the paper being 100% cotton and having a texture that lends itself to this flaking. Over the years, we didn't

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