Description
Bed of Nails – Gila Woodpecker and Cactus, Original Silk Painting and SIgned Giclee Prints
Fancy a cactus for a bed? Gila woodpeckers peck holes in cacti to make their nests. One of their favourites is the saguaro and these things have pretty impressive spines. Wow is all I can say!
My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects. See a video of the process here.
The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.
A signed giclee print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. Each print will come mounted in white and packed with a backing board in biodegradable cellophane. It is an open edition so there is no limit to the number of reproductions that can be made. The following sizes are available:
Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
40 x 40 cm | 40 x 40 cm | 29 x 29 cm |
30 x 30 cm | 30 x 30 cm | 19 x 19 cm |
20 x 20 cm | 20 x 20 cm | 14 x 14 cm |