Description
Mount Washington, Vancouver Island, Original Silk Painting. Mounted to fit frame 40 x 50 cm.
This painting was commissioned to celebrate a very happy wedding anniversary. The painting shows a view across the lake at Mount Washington, Vancouver Island where the couple spent their honeymoon. Mount Washington is a mountain on the eastern edge of the Vancouver Island range and is home to the Mount Washington Alpine Resort. It is now firmly on my list of places I want to visit 🙂
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.
The original painting will come mounted to fit a 40 x 50 cm frame. The actual image size is 30 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 is an open edition so there is no limit to the number of reproductions that can be made. Signed giclee prints are supplied mounted ready for you to frame. The following sizes are available for this painting:
| ?Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 40 x 50 cm | 40 x 50 cm | 39 x 29 cm |
| 8 x 10 inch | 8 x 10 inch | 14.2 x 19 cm |
