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Caught in the Act – Toucan in the Spotlight, Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints
This little toucan thought he could get away with some mischief but suddenly found himself in the spotlight!
Toucan Fruity Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints
Don?t Toucans make you smile? How is it that they don?t fall flat on their faces with that oversized beak? This one is trying to hide in a papaya tree but hasn?t quite grasped the concept of camouflage??
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.
Visit my?YouTube Channel?to see how my paintings are created and click?here?to read a bit more about me.
The original painting will come mounted to fit a 60 x 60 cm frame. The actual image size is 40 x 40 cm. Framed is not included.
A signed giclee print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. It 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 size prints 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 |
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