Description
I belong to a group of artists called Art6. Each month we set a theme to inspire us and I painted this picture in response to a theme of ‘Hygge’. Hygge is a danish word which means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. I fancied that this little chaffinch needed a warming drink of chai latte during the winter months. This painting is part of my ‘Barista Birds’ series.
The original painting will come mounted on a black wooden cradled board frame. The overall size is 8 x 8 inches
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.
