Painting over a laminated Giclee

After capturing an original piece of art with a Hasselblad H1D digital camera system and outputting to the EPSON 9600 with photo black on EPSON Premium Water Resistant Canvas the piece was then laminated with the Neschen Accu-Coat Giclee 1.5m Liquid Laminator. The finish/laminate used was the Ultra Coat Clear Satin. After waiting about 30 mins the canvas was completely dry and now had a nice satin finish. The question was asked “can you go back into the image and paint over it with Acrylics or Oils?”, and the answer is yes! We tested two images. On the first one we went back in using Liquitex Acrylic and Rembrandt Acrylics. The paint laid down nice and looked very natural and it was hard to tell if you were looking at an original or a giclee. The underlying image was not effected or changed in anyway by the acrylic on top of the protected laminated piece. For the second test we used Rembrandts Oils and Van Gogh Oils. The results were the same. It was like printing over a canvas that has a satin gesso finish. Being a fine artist I was astonished at how I could take a giclee of my image, laminate it and go back over it and make the image its own unique piece. I see how this will benefit fine art reproduction shops, fine artist and giclee printers.