originals & reproductions
Original Paintings: An original painting starts with an inspiration from the artist's travels and life experiences. Ppreliminary sketches are created and a final composition is sketched onto canvas or watercolor paper. Jenny Floravita uses the highest quality of pigments and papers and canvases available to create her original paintings, which ensures that they can be passed down through generations.

Ms. Floravita's oil paintings are rich in color and take a tremendous amount of time to create.The subject matter that she paints is very challenging and her paintings would add value and class to any environment.

Ms. Floravita’s watercolor techniques are reminiscent of fine oil paintings with the beautiful hues and texture to only be had in watercolors. She layers as many as 15 times in certain areas and the resulting work is vibrant and bold. Several of her pieces are also very large in size, this being an unusual characteristic to the watercolor medium.

Watercolors can last as long as oil paintings if properly cared for. They must be framed archivally and kept out of direct sunlight with museum quality UV protecting plexi-glass. A recent exhibit of Winslow Homer at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor showed that Mr. Holmer's oils had already cracked but his watercolors still appeared to be vibrant and in excellent condition after over 100 years!

Original paintings are more expensive than reproductions because they are one of a kind. There is a lot of time and quality that go into Ms. Floravita's original paintings and they range in price, which is often based on size. It is best to contact the artist to ask the price of a specific painting. In the case of a commission, the artists can determine the price based on the size needed.

Giclée: A giclée, a french term meaning “to spray”, is a very high quality reproduction. An original painting is professionally scanned or photographed. The resulting digital file is then color corrected to match as closely as possible the original work created by Jenny Floravita. The artist works directly with the printer to ensure that the final product is accurate. Specific areas of the image of the painting can be selected and matched to the original. This can be a very laborious project. The final result is then printed on only state of the art technology designed for giclées. This would be a very recent technology, high quality inkjet printer that sprays millions of dots in the form of pigmented inks onto a special canvas or paper. The canvas and paper used by the artist are archival are rated to last 70–200 years by Ms. Floravita’s printer, assuming that the giclées have been cared for in the same manner that one would care for an original watercolor. The final product is then protected with a uv coating and then signed and numbered by the artist.

Museums have been known to use giclées to represent work that is otherwise being cared for or restored. This technology, though very expensive, produces wonderfully accurate prints. Ms. Floravita’s giclées are a few to several hundred dollars, depending on the size and edition. Ms. Floravita offers giclées printed on both archival textured paper that resemble a real watercolor and canvas. Some paintings, where the original is very large, have two sizes.

Lithograph: A lithograph also starts with a professional scan or photograph from an original painting. The digital file is then separated by the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black into film negatives and then made into plates. The plates are then put onto a mechanical press that rolls ink onto special papers. The main difference between a lithograph and off-set printing, such as packaging and in magazines, is that you cannot see any dots. It is very high in quality. Artists often print only a couple hundred and limit an edition by destroying the plates.

Jenny Floravita only has two images in lithographs because she prefers the finer quality of the giclée. Serena and Baby Grand are available for $125 unframed and are signed and numbered in an edition of 285.