1) What exactly do you sell?  We sell the world's highest quality canvas reproductions called canvas transfers.

2) Who else sells your product?  Ethan Allen Furniture, The Museum Company Store, Design Tuscano, and Masters Collection are a few popular retailers who sell our product.  All these high quality retailers offer our product at much higher prices!

3) Why are some web sites cheaper?  If they're cheaper, they are not the same product. Some web sites try to confuse you with trick phrases like "canvas texture" which is not canvas! Some actually say their prints are better than canvas transfers.  We continuously monitor other sites - to date, no one has ever offered our product even close to our price!  Read on to learn the difference.

4) What exactly is a canvas transfer?  Our process begins with a print on paper.  We soak it in a solution which dissolves the paper away, leaving just the image.  This image layer is hand applied to artist grade canvas and stretched on stretcher bars.  Stretchers bars are the pieces of wood that hold the canvas square and snug.  If you chose the brush stroke option, then a staff artist paints over the image with clear acrylic paint which emulates the brush strokes of the original painting. At this point, the piece is ready to be shipped to you and you can frame it locally, or choose one of our quality frames. (sorry, we need to charge for shipping if we frame it, but the savings is always worth it)!

5) What are the finishing options?  Brush strokes are optional.  Some pieces really need them, others do not.  We're happy to advise you on your selection.  Another idea, ideal for modern contemporary works, is to have either a Gallery Wrap or a Museum Wrap.  With the gallery wrap the image continues from the front of the piece and wraps around on the sides of the piece. Keep in mind you will lose about 2" of the image in each direction, while looking at it straight on. From the side, you will see the image continue around the side. The good news is you don't need to frame the piece. You just hang it as it is. With the Museum Wrap it's slightly different. The image stops at the edge and the sides are white. In either case, it's a more and more popular look. The depth of your piece is will be 3/4".

6) What about framing options?  Visit Custom Framing.  Most of our canvases use a price Point 4 or higher.  Check out the frames, and call or email if you want a personal discussion of what might be best for your picture and particular decor.

7) What is the difference between a print, poster, giclee, lithograph, serigraph, etc.?  This is the most misunderstood issue in the art industry.  If it's not the one and only original, then its a reproduction.  That can be a print on paper, or canvas, or a hand painted "knock-off", or some combination of the above.  A print (on paper or canvas) is called by the name that describes how the ink got on the paper or canvas.  Most common are lithographs, serigraphs and giclees.  The method doesn't matter all that much, but Giclees are considered the best quality print, although our art-snob friends (and we have a few) cannot tell the difference sitting side by side!

8)  Why do you sell only Canvas transfers?  Actually, at our retail stores, we sell many forms of art - framed prints, oil painting, etc. We're not crazy about shipping glass, and you're not crazy about the shipping cost. Also selecting matt colors, etc is vastly easier in person.  Perfect for online shopping though, is the canvas transfer product - thus the focus of our web site. The reason we sell canvas transfers instead of other canvas "textured" products like canvex, is this. We could just as easily sell any other version. We bought samples from most of the suppliers around the country, and we chose the best one, then negotiated the best pricing for volume purchasing!  If something else was better, and certainly if it was better and less expensive - we would switch to selling that product! 

9) What does the competition offer for less?  One site that comes up when you search for "canvas transfer" does not offer transfers at all.  For only a little less than our prices, they glue a poster down to a board, then laminate it, and call it "canvas textured".  They go on to say because it still on the original paper, it will last longer!  This is not true!  You must read all their FAQs, study every possible technical meaning of every word they use and you still don't know what they're saying until you get the product. This is fine if you're shopping for future garage sale items, but not for a special piece to show off in your home for decades to come. 

Another favorite is a company that scans the poster into their computer then prints it out on canvas in any size you want - they mention giclee printing, but they don't say that's what they do!  They also call this a canvas transfer - it is not!  While technically, their process could make a quality print, it is not likely -  you need to worry about the colors matching the image they scan - this is very difficult without a lot of printing, testing, adjusting the colors, printing again, etc.  This would be a very expensive process if they did it correctly. Next, if they enlarge it you risk losing image quality from the enlargement. Finally, it doesn't include the hand painted brushstrokes or the stretching on wood stretcher bars.

Oh Yes, let's not forget the hand painted oils - Don't be fooled by hand painted reproductions on the internet, at hotel art sales or on cruise ships. Those hand painted oils are great for decorative pieces, but you should really see the one you're going to get in person - they are hand painted and vary widely in quality and accuracy.  We offer this option in our store, but not online. for the reasons discussed above.