Marilyn Vuitton

Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. My name is Charmaine Olivia. I’m an artist living in San Francisco. I am passionately curious and am constantly evolving and learning. Oil paints are my preferred medium, but I also enjoy using ink and watercolors. .My illustrations, photography and paintings have appeared in publications and galleries throughout the world. Some of my clients and projects include Urban Outfitters, Lady Gaga, Hallmark, Volcom Stone, Element, Nylon Magazine, Inked Girls Magazine, Eyes on Walls, Threadless, Bolia, and Society6. Limited edition prints, posters, stickers and originals paintings can be found in my online shop