Shirley Moore Leago fine art paintings and prints of parrots and wildlife

Moore Leago Fine Art paintings and prints of Birds, Parrots, Macaws, and Wildlife by Shirley Moore Leago

Shirley Moore Leago fine art paintings and prints of parrots and wildlife

about my work

Two central themes prevail in my work: the habits and personalities of the birds and the landscapes of the homes they live in. The natural habitats and timelines expose as much beauty and secrets as the birds themselves.

All about Giclée Prints

My name is Shirley Moore Leago and I create oil paintings. I also make available high quality Giclée prints on artist grade canvas on most all of my paintings. Below, you can learn more aboput Giclée Priints and the process used to print them. I hope you enjoy my web site presentation and encourage you to view my paintings and prints of birds, wildlife and their environments.

Shirley Moore Leago ... Giclée Prints

What is a Giclee Fine Art Print?
A Giclee fine art print refers to a machine-made reproduction using the latest and most sophisticated ink-jet technology. The name comes from the French word GICLEE (pronounced Zhee-Clay) that means “spray". In this printing method, the media (in our case the artists canvas) is carried by a spinning roller while infinitely small pixels of rich, vibrant archival inks are sprayed on it at a very high speed. This renders an amazingly smooth and consistent image true to the original painting, a superb quality fine art reproduction.
The Giclée is quickly becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced for its astonishing quality by major museums, galleries, publishers and artists. A Giclée Print is quite simply the closest replication of an original artwork that is currently possible.

How durable is a Giclee Print?

The latest inks offer up to 70 years light-fastness and UV-resistance under museum archival conditions. For even better permanence, all of my Giclée Prints on canvas are coated with a layer of anti-fading UV protective clear satin glaze.

More - The History of Giclée Prints

Giclée is the use of the ink-jet printing process for making fine art large format digital images. The term — from the French verb gicler meaning "to squirt, to spray" — first applied to "Iris prints" created in the early 1990s on the Scitex "Iris Model Four" colour drum piezo-head inkjet proofer, a commercial printer designed to preview what a print will look like before mass production begins.
The term, sometimes anglicized as giclee, is used to describe any high-resolution, large-format ink-jet printer output with fade-resistant dye- or pigment-based inks. It is common for these printers to use between six and twelve colour inks. The use of dye based inks requires special coating to avoid fading.
Though originally intended for proofing, many artists and photographers use ink-jet printers as an alternative to lithography, serigraphy or serilith for limited edition original prints or reproductions. The cost of producing limited edition runs is greatly reduced compared to alternative printing methods.

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inspiration

Shirley Moore Leago fine art paintings and prints of parrots and wildlife

The vibrant and iridescent colors of tropical birds, particularly Macaws, are the focal point of my paintings. I am drawn to their human like qualities, their emotional bonds within their social structures, and their delicate balance with nature. My paintings reveal the secret lives of these birds in their natural habitats, far from the prying eyes and hands of man.