small hand coloured etchings - regional studies

This is another recent work which was printed from a solar plate. The image features sailboats in Thunder Bay harbour with the famous Sleeping Giant geographical outcrop visible in the distance. I created the clouds by first blocking out the paper with masking frisket and applying washes of watercolour. Each individual print has a unique sky and cloud formation.

Title: Summer

Medium: solar plate with hand colour (variable edition)

Plate size: 8 x 8 cm (3 x 3 inches)

Paper size: 15 x 15 cm ( 6 x 6 in)

Edition size: 50

Studio downtime

As you may have noticed there haven't been a great deal of entries during the past month.

I have been occupied with some home improvement projects as I learned will be getting overseas visitors in early September of this year.
Then last week I came down with a rather nasty flu and followup cold that lingered for several days.
Since then have managed to dig out some small intaglio prints that have had hand colouring applied into. I am hanging these small works on a section of gallery wall designated for miniature art that will be made available for sale at a co-operative gallery in our city.

The example shown at the beginning of this post is a small study of tiger lilies that began as a grayscale photo image that was exposed onto a small piece of solar plate and developed. I added watercolour into the work. The frame I chose to use did not cost me anything for it was salvaged from a scrap bin (in it's original condition had dents and chips in the finish and wasn't really usable). I stripped off the old finish, sanded it and applied a golden hue waterbased stain and sealant. The print image size is 4 x 7 cm (1.5 x 2.75 inches) and is set into a 13 x 18 cm (5 x7 inch) frame with a simple white mat presentation.