Pretty Polly – Parrot

£18.00£50.00

Pretty Polly – Parrot

Description

Pretty Polly – Parrot, Original Silk Painting. Mounted to fit frame 50 x 50 cm.

Not sure why but my artistic mojo completely upped and left me during the first part of the lockdown. Then somehow this Amazonian Parrot emerged from the undergrowth. Maybe I was just dreaming of holidays in tropical climes. Amazon Parrots have an amazing ability to mimic speech so I can just imagine this little guy popping up and saying ?Pretty Polly?…

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.

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

Additional information

Type

Framed Original Silk Painting, Mounted Original Silk Painting, Mounted Signed Giclee Print

Size

60 x 60 cm, 40 x 40 cm, 20 x 20 cm, 30 x 30 cm, 70 x 70 cm, 90 x 90 cm, 50 x 50 cm

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