Touch-Up – The Secret That Makes a Print Look Like an Original

By Yehudit Binder, artist and painting teacher for over 20 years · Reading time: 3 minutes

Have you ever hung a print on the wall, and stepped back?
The colors are right, the lines are precise –
and yet something about it stays flat. Too quiet.

Because a real painting is more than a picture.
It is layers of paint, built one upon another,
a brushstroke that leaves its trace behind,
and light that catches in them in the morning – and changes its face by evening.

In short: A touch-up painting is a high-quality print on canvas, onto which Yehudit Binder adds layers of paint and texture by hand. It looks and feels like a painting – for less than a tenth of the original's price.

The moment a picture becomes a work of art

The touch-up painting was born to bring back to the wall what a print cannot give: the hand.

Yehudit takes a high-quality canvas print of the painting,
and returns to it in the studio – with brush, with paint,
and with the same care with which she painted the original.

What comes out of her hands is no longer an "upgraded print".
It is a work touched by the artist's hand –
that looks, and feels, like a painting.

What happens on the canvas?

The base: true to the original.
The painting is printed on canvas in colors true to the original –
the composition, the hues and the details, just as they came from the artist's hand.

The soul: the touches of the hand.
On this base, Yehudit adds layers of paint and texture by hand –
precisely where the painting breathes:
in the light, the foliage, the hue of the stones, the places that ask for depth.

A difference you see from the sofa – and feel up close

• Texture. The paint rises above the canvas, and the brushstrokes are visible to the eye.
• Light. The layers of paint catch the light of the room, bringing the painting to life throughout the day.
• Depth. The picture stops being a surface – and becomes a space.

No two are alike.
Every touch is made by hand, so every touch-up painting is a work in its own right.
The painting that will hang in your home – was made for you.

Simple math, a big difference

Take, for example, the painting "The Holy Temple", 60×40 cm, without a frame:

Between the print and the touch-up lies only 300 ₪ .
Between the touch-up and the original – 12,925 ₪.

In other words:
for a small addition over the price of a print, you get a work that brings the presence of the original into your home –
for less than a tenth of its price.

This is the point where every shekel gives the most on the wall,
which is why it is the option we recommend above all.

Prices are correct as of the article's publication date. A frame adds to the price in each of the options.

Three ways to bring a work of art home

Who is it for?

• For a wall waiting for one large work that will have presence, not just color.
• For a gift that needs to impress for a housewarming, a Rav or teacher, or a family simcha.
• For offices and institutions seeking a dignified, prestigious look on a realistic budget.
• For anyone who fell in love with an original painting and wants to see it on their own wall right now.

How to order?

1. Choose a painting in the gallery.
2. Under print type, choose "Painting with touch-up paint strokes", then the size and the frame.
3. Send your order, with no immediate payment – and we will get back to you to confirm.