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Posted on by Sean McGettigan Posted in Tips & Tricks
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How To Video: Coating Canvas by Hand with a Roller

Coating canvas with Sunset Satin CoatingCanvas is a premium product for which your customers are paying a premium price. Taking the extra step of applying a protective coating is a step that everyone producing canvas prints should take to ensure that the print has that extra protection from the mishandling that may occur once it gets into a client’s hands.

Sunset Gloss Coating and Sunset Satin Coating help by adding a tough, flexible layer of protection and contain UV inhibitors for maximum protection against lighting-induced fading. These coatings are typically applied using a high-pressure low-volume (HPLV) spray gun or by hand using a white high density foam roller.

In the video below you will learn how to apply Sunset Gloss or Satin Coating using a roller…

Posted on by Regan Dickinson Posted in Promotions & Rebates
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Find Craft and Clementi, Pick up Prizes, Day Two

Find Craft and Clementi at WPPI TuesdayCongratulations to Rick Reil of ReaLife Photography, Kennewick, Wash., who found LexJet account specialist Justin Craft at the right place and time at WPPI today. Rick won a 24-in. x 40-ft. roll of Sunset Select Matte Canvas. Later, Gary R. Coppage, Goldvein, Va., found LexJet’s Michael Clementi and picked up Sunset Stretcher Bars and a pint of Sunset Satin Coating.

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These are the LexJet guys you'll look for Tuesday at WPPI for a free roll of Sunset Select Matte Canvas and a pint of Sunset Satin Coating: Justin Craft and Michael Clementi.

Tomorrow at WPPI (Tuesday), find Craft and Clementi at 1 p.m. at the Canon booth (401) and you’ll get a free 24-in. x 40-ft. roll of Sunset Select Matte Canvas and a pint of Sunset Satin Coating. Look for Twitter updates at twitter.com/lexjet. The first three photographers who find Craft and Clementi and mention either this blog or LexJet’s tweets will pick up the prizes.

Good luck, and we’ll see you at WPPI.

Posted on by Regan Dickinson Posted in Case Studies & Profiles
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ArtPrize in Grand Rapids Draws Millions, Awards $449,000 in Prizes

Dan Johnson's photographic series for the Caregiver Resource Network entered in this year's ArtPrize contest printed on Sunset Select Matte Canvas and coated with Sunset Satin Coating.

In only its second year, ArtPrize, held in Grand Rapids, Mich., may hold the prize as the most democratic art show and contest in the U.S. Entries are open to all media – whether photography, sculpture, oil, watercolor or any other medium you can use and arrange so that it’s subjective enough to call art.

This year, local photographer Dan Johnson of Dan Johnson Photography entered a series of canvas wraps printed on LexJet Sunset Select Matte Canvas coated with LexJet Sunset Satin Coating. Though the Grand Prize was an amazing $250,000, Johnson didn’t expect to win or even place, nor was that his motivation.

“We created an awareness piece for Caregiver Resource Network, a group of businesses that provide resources to caregivers. Our intent was to provide an artistic piece that would be a visual picture of this organization and would get the attention of people who could use their help or could help support the organization,” says Johnson.

Beautiful pieces of photographic art in their own right, the series of photos on canvas did their job and did it well, exposing the thousands who thronged Grand Rapids for ArtPrize to the services provided by the Caregiver Resource Network. Johnson says that almost 500,000 votes were cast during the event, which ran from Sept. 22 through Oct. 10 this year.

“The event is very unique and is gathering tons of attention and momentum. In the art world, it’s unusual to have the general public judge, especially for such a large prize,” says Johnson. “It has taken on another life as a model for urban renewal, especially here in Grand Rapids since hundreds of thousands of people have come through the city to see it.”

This year’s winner was an 18-foot wide pencil sketch called Cavalry. It took the artist around 800 hours to sketch the WWI-era portrait. To find out more, and see all the winners, go to artprize.org.