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Texas Longhorns Roundup, Bluebonnets, Giclee Canvas, LoVita Irby
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A Texas Round-Up
By: LoVita Irby
Giclee print on canvas
The image size is: 20"x30"
This giclee canvas print was limited to an edition size of: 750
Signed by Giclee Master
Certification of edition affixed by publisher
Publisher: International Galleries Inc.
Condition: New, never framed, stored flat
This canvas giclee print will be shipped rolled in a tube.
Please note: If this print is a ‘signed and numbered’ print and we have included a photograph of the number or something showing the number – we are NOT promising you will receive THAT numbered print. We have more than one of the print and the photo is of one of them.
LoVita Irby:
A self-taught artist who began drawing at the age of four, her early inspiration came from her visits to her grandmother's farm in Oklahoma. The lush hills, meadows and fields of crops such as watermelon and peanuts provided the budding artist a background rich in the love of the land. "I would ride the mule to bring the cows in to be milked", she says. "I would sing at the top of my voice the popular song from the fifties, Purple People Eater. The cows knew when they heard the song, it was time to head for the barn."
Born in Dallas, Texas her artistic efforts were supported by her two creative parents. She was raised in the family's paint store which grew into a picture framing business when her father began making frames for her paintings.
In what she describes as a "...little bitty suburb of Dallas", the Irbys recently moved to Waxahachie, Texas, a town of quaint Victorian homes that attracts the film industry and such movies as Places in the Heart. On two acres, the new home boasts an idyllic scene, a real-life Irby landscape that includes two acres of verdant vegetation, and a barn. Someday she hopes to have horses, a gazebo and a pond.
The Irby art studio is located at the couples' BlueBonnet Art Gallery in DeSoto, Texas fifteen minutes from their home. Here, with abundant windows to usher in the light, are also walls covered with photographs of Lovita with celebrities such as Kevin Costner, Terri Garr, Jimmy Stewart, Terry Bradshaw and others. There are also awards for her work and ribbons signifying her expertise at art shows as a judge. Worthy of note is the twenty-seven years Lovita has been a featured guest artist at the Texas State Fair.
Although making a name for herself with her images of the bluebonnets her technique is detailed and highlighted in vivid colors, Irby is a versatile artist both in subject matter and in style. Her portrait of John F. Kennedy is a combination of detail and impressionism. "Among my favorite subjects are my family," she says. "My grandmother in a field of hollyhocks; my niece and nephew in a field of wild flowers; my dad in a cornfield." Her recent painting is of a gazebo in a lush garden of flowers.
Crediting her success to hard work and faith, Lovita is a real people person, enjoying the contact with her collectors and the people at numerous public speaking engagements. Her intense working schedule and consuming hobby of history seems to agree with this artist who laughs easily and whose paintings lovingly touch the lives of others. She enjoys the sharing of what is important to her, although, she admits to never being satisfied with her art and continually striving for improvements.
About the print:
This art is a limited edition "g
iclee"
(pronounced ghee-clay) print. A
"giclee" print
is a high-resolution digital print that is created by a series of tiny jets spraying millions of droplets of printing ink onto the highest quality archival artists' canvas. The spray generates more than four million droplets of ink per second; hence, the name "giclee", which is French for "fine spray." A precise computer control panel insures consistency of hue, value, and density. "Giclees" are of such phenomenal quality that even some art experts have difficulty telling a "giclee" from an original. This fact has prompted museums and collectors to substitute "giclees" for originals, thereby safeguarding priceless works in vaults. Since the "giclee" process produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over three and one-half million colors possible) and the resolution is two to three times that of lithographs or serigraphy, a "giclee" captures every nuance of an original.
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