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The Artist
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Since 1975, watercolorist Jim Mahanes has painted the American landscape with both realism and imaginative interpretation. A self-taught artist, Mahanes has advanced degrees in the behavioral sciences, and practices family therapy in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been a faculty member of the University of Kentucky for more than 23 years. His art is a primary focus in his life now, however. According to Jim, "There is a close parallel between painting and therapy. The perceptual skills demanded of a clinician enhance the creative approach to painting and vice versa."
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Show Schedule
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Jim Mahanes' watercolors hang in many private and corporate collections and his works have been exhibited in galleries from Louisville to Maine to Florida. Each year there are numerous opportunities to see and purchase Jim's work. Here is a schedule of the upcoming opportunities.
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Art Classes
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Jim Mahanes has started teaching the art of watercolor. Here is information about his classes and upcoming opportunities.
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Gicleé Information
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The Gicleé Printing Process
To replicate the subtle details of an original work a printing process utilizing highly specialized technology and fine art mediums, commonly referred to as the Gicleé or Giclée (pronounced zhee-clay, meaning "to spray") process, was developed in 1991 with noted printmaker Jack Duganne.
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With this process master printmakers, in collaboration with the artist, use digitized printing techniques to produce museum quality prints that are difficult to differentiate from the originals.
Unlike the normal lithographic processes used to mass produce most limited edition prints, the Gicleé process captures and reproduces the artist's most minute subtleties in superb detail. Blended colors appear to be directing from the artist's brush and fine lines are captured in sharp, crisp detail.
The key to the process is the Gicleé graphic printers that literally spray archival water based dyes onto 100% cotton, acid-free paper. The dyes are deeply absorbed into the paper fibers to provide maximum realism with deep saturated colors along with subtle tints and blends.
This printing process was selected by Jamie Wyeth to reproduce his "Gicleé at Sea," the first reproduction of any of his works.
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