Artwork description:

peacefully munching away, I can sit for hours and watch them, like a kind of meditation, they don't care about all the other rubbish that fills our lives!

a handprinted aquatint etching; this means that I have drawn the image, through a varnish, onto a copper plate, I then immerse the copper plate in acid, and the acid "bites" into the copper where I have removed the varnish. When the plate is done, and this takes a while, as most copper plates go in the acid several times, with me adding more detail and aquatint (gives dark tones) I ink the copper plate up for each print I make, you can only print once per inking. Once the ink and paper has dried I sign, title and number each print. As etchings are real hands on printmaking, printmaker are allowed to call their prints original prints, and etchings are very collectible. A great way to start an art collection!

Aquatint is a technique where deep tones can be achieved on an etching, it involves rosin, that gets melted onto the copperplate with the help of a burner.

I print "Sheep Country" in a short edition of only 50 prints, each print is numbered and signed by me. Please note you might not receive the number in the photograph.

The etching is printed on a piece of warm white heavy printmaking paper, perfect for the image,
the paper measures 10 x 16" (25 x 40 cm)
and the actual images measures 6" x 9,5" (16 cm x 24 cm)

I'll mail your etching carefully wrapped (see my many reviews) and it comes with a nice "Original Print by Mariann Johansen-Ellis" sticker and a leaflet explaining what an etching is.

Thanks for visiting, come back soon!
Mariann

Materials used:

copperplate, aquatint, etching press, etching inks, printmaking paper, artists skill and imagination

Tags:

#landscape #nature #country #peaceful #sheep #countryside #farm animals #cypress trees #green meadow #grazing sheep #country kitchen #cottage decor