Description
Careful Where You Put Your Feet – Orange Oriole and Cactus Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints
These orange orioles are going to have to be pretty careful where they are standing – a cactus is a bit of a spiky perch to choose!
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.
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.
You can see a time lapse video of me painting?here.
A signed giclee prints is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. Each print comes 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 size prints are available:
| ?Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 40 x 50 cm | 40 x 50 cm | 39 x 26 cm |
| 8 x 10 inch | 8 x 10 inch | 12.7 x 19 cm |
