Artist: Colin See-Paynton, Wales
Size 8.7 x 6.9 inches
Wood Engraving, Limited Edition. (#14 of 75 prints) Together, North America's largest bird and salmon species. The Copper River's wild salmon runs are world renowned, and the delta hosts the continent's greatest concentrations of nesting trumpeter swans.
A wood engraving can take anything from a week to three or four months to complete depending upon the size and intricacy of the image. Once the engraving is complete, Colin applies ink by hand with a roller to the newly created "relief" surface. His press is an Albion dated 1869. It is made of cast iron and is complete with a tympan and frisket. He generally uses a Zerkall paper but unquestionably, the paper he has found to be best for printing wood engravings is Gampii Vellum, a handmade Japanese paper. It takes two or three days to print an edition of 75 prints from a large block and he normally limits editions to between 50 and 100. Paper and ink will usually dry within forty-eight hours. The selected prints are then signed and numbered showing the size of the edition.
All the prints are originals taken directly from the block. This differs radically from a reproduction print where an original painting is photographed and mechanically printed. Each print is signed and numbered and editions are strictly limited as shown.
Item: #CSP-02