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A Closer Look at Some Samples

Bouquet of Thailand

Actual Dimensions (See Above)

The Process

• Each Herb is pressed, inked, arranged into a bouquet and nature printed by me.   (Note the faint diagonal mark of the background plate that supported the bouquet, at right.)
• Individual Herb Etchings are printed next.   This results in the familiar authenticating embossed borders.
• Each Plate is etched, inked and hand printed by me.
• Each Herb is the same color as, and touches, its own etching: i.e. at right, the red chili pepper leaf touches the red chili pepper etching, the brown tamarind leaf touches the brown tamarind etching, and so on.

Individual Herb

(Detail from an image on the Individual Herbs pages)

Actual Dimensions Printed Image 2 x 2½" Mat Window 3 x 3¾" Matted 6 x 6¾" Framed 6¾ x 7½" The Process Damp paper is run through the press (always by hand) with the individual herb etching. Ink from the etching plate is transferred to the paper. The resulting embossment, evidenced by the darker border around the plate in these illustrations, also serves to authenticate the work as an original print and not a reproduction by photographic or other means. The beveled edge in the mat window is hand colored to match the etching.

Rose Garden Red

Actual Dimensions

The Process

• The center image is produced from an etched and aquatinted zinc plate.
• The border is composed of a collagraph of leaves of the subject flower.
• Both plate and border are inked, arranged on the printer bed, covered with damp 100% rag paper, and hand cranked through the press by me.
• Due to the inherent uniqueness of any nature print, any subsequent re-inking and reprinting using these leaves will produce, by definition, an original print.