Description
Goldcrest and Berries Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints
The goldcrest is the smallest European bird (8.5 ? 9.5 cm long) and yet is known in European folklore as ?the king of birds?.? In my area they are a rare visitor, but I was delighted to see one in our garden this year. For this painting I treated the silk with a medium to control the flow of the paint rather than use gutta as I was afraid the gutta might be too much for my delicate friend.
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.
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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 |
| 20 x 20 cm | 20 x 20 cm | 14 x 14 cm |
