Enhancements To Editions

There are such things as enhanced or embellished or

highlighted works and for some crazy art reason there are

many terms for this one thing. It all boils down to a point

where either the artist or someone nominated by the artist

has gone over the painting with oil paint or acrylic paint

depending on what the artist chooses to use.  The

highlighting or enhancement or embellishment or retouch

takes place on the reproduction and hopefully adds depth

and dimension reminiscent of the original.

The exact details are very simple, the artist will go in

with a paint brush after the print dries and will enhance

certain portions of the painting to add light dimension or

color, sometimes just signing in oil can be considered an

embellishment.

This has become quite popular; in fact some artists

charge a heavy premium for these enhanced pieces, while

not doing terribly much enhancement.

When the artist is finished retouching the piece is

sprayed with a special UV light inhibiting lacquer to seal it

for ages.  The new ultraviolet inhibiting coats claim to

double the life span of whatever media they are applied to.

But they are highly toxic when being sprayed, so much so

that the person spraying the coat must wear a protective

mask. The only other issue, I've noticed, with these UV

coatings is under the right circumstances they can peal or

bubble. This usually only happens to low quality coatings.

Also watch out for scotch tape applied to the print as a way

of keeping it flat in a drawer, because once you've removed

the scotch tape, a portion of the coating may have come off

with it.