General Print Information & FAQs about prints

I do! All of my prints are handmade by me.

I have an Epson Surecolor P-6000, that I call Hal-6000, that I use to make all of my prints.

I print, trim, mount, and varnish all of my prints. Jon or I will bag prints, and we both put hanging equipment on the backs of the prints that need them.

No, I do not have a printer that can print directly onto wood. Those things are huge!

All of my prints on wood are giclée paper prints that have been mounted onto the wood. The prints are then varnished to help protect them, and to give them a little texture.

This question used to confuse me until I realized what people thought I was doing.

Almost all of my original artwork is done on wood. After I finish a painting I will take a high resolution scan of it, making any needed corrections to it since scans aren’t always perfect, until I have a digital copy of the painting that I can make print reproductions of.

The woodgrain visible on the print is the woodgrain in the original work, and is not the woodgrain of the panel the print has been mounted onto.

It’s not a reverse image transfer using Modge Podge or anything like that. Those types of techniques don’t work well with the type of printer I have, and doing prints this way can negatively affect the archival quality of the print.

Mostly because I don’t like dealing with glass.

I try to offer all of my prints in a variety of sizes for both my paper prints and my prints on wood. There are a few situations where I might only offer a print in a limited number of options:

• If the original piece I’m making the print from is too small, then I sometimes won’t offer it in a larger size because I don’t think it looks as good. Either the markings from the colored pencil are too pronounced, or the visible wood grain becomes noisy looking. Whatever the case, it doesn’t meet my standard of quality.

• Vise versa, if the original piece is huge or has a lot of little details, I might not offer it in smaller sizes because those details aren’t as easy to see.

• Sometimes, with new prints, I am testing to see how well an art piece looks as a print (you’ll usually see this when I’m selling in-person), so I’ve only got it available as a paper print, or as a print on wood, or it’s only available in a certain size. I might expand the options for a print later depending on how I feel about the test options.

I offer a lot of prints. Some might even say too many. I’ve been making art and selling prints as Skullgarden since 2011.

Sometimes it’s just time to retire a print. Sometimes a print is no longer popular, so I stop offering it. Sometimes a print file goes bad or gets lost and I can’t make prints of it anymore. Sometimes I just get tired of seeing a print because it’s old and I know I can make better art now.

While I make all of my prints myself, I do not make all of the wooden panels. All of my cradled wooden panels are sourced from a provider I’ve used for years. Sometimes that provider has a hard time keeping certain dimension types in stock, or they will suddenly decide to overprice their panels with less standard dimensions.

If it’s a laser cut panel that I make myself, then it’s either because the shape is difficult to work with, or I’ve decided to retire the print(s) that use that shape.

No.

All of my print shapes are based off of their original artwork. There are a few exceptions for paintings that were originally done on unique shapes (ex. Samsara was painted on a circular piece of wood, but the prints are all square), but those are the exception because I decided to make that exception.

I offer my prints in the shapes and colors that I intended them to be. If you would like to make alterations to a print that you’ve purchased that is completely up to you, but I will not do it on your behalf.