Description
December’s Shining Star – Hellebores Original Silk Painting and Limited Edition Prints
This painting was for my twelve days of Christmas project in 2015. Each day I looked ahead to the months of the next year.
What other flower could I possibly do for December but wonderful hellebores. When everything else in the garden is looking pretty dull these little fellows pop up and show us their exquisite beauty. And there are so many different varieties all with their own special charms. For me this little plant really is the shining star of December. I decided to use resistad (a colourless resist) instead of gutta on these guys so as not to overwhelm their delicate petals. What do you think?
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 Limited Edition Print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. The number of prints is limited to 100. The following sizes are available:
| Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 30 x 30 cm | 30 x 30 cm | 19 x 19 cm |
| 20 x 20 cm | 20 x 20 cm | 14 x 14 cm |
