Cloudery

Needle & Pen (082). Pen and ink on Canson Montval Aquarelle cold press watercolor paper, 5 x 7 inches. January 2010.

Influenced by Illustration Friday — Focused.

Cloudery is now selling an 8 x 10 giclee print of Small Forest in the Etsy shop — $7 from each print (50% of the proceeds) will go to Hope For Haiti Now. The image size is just under 5 x 5 inches on the 8 x 10 page.

Professionally printed by Wall Blank (who has generously donated part of the printing fee to the cause) on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper, 100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free Base, 260gsm (lightfastness rated at 61 years). The paper is heavy with a slight texture, much like the watercolor paper the original is drawn on; the blacks are super black; this is a beautiful reproduction.

8 of these prints are available in this first printing (currently 5 are still available). Click here for more information. Also available: Upgrade your print so it’s ready-to-hang — the print will be mounted on a 6 x 6 inch Plywerk panel (this makes it the size of the original drawing). Read more about Plywerk in this post from November. Contact me through Etsy for more details on this Plywerk upgrade.

Small Forest (081). Pen and ink on Cartiera Magnani Italia Acquerello Portofino hot press watercolor paper, 6 x 6 inches square. January 2010.

Influenced by Illustration Friday — Wilderness.

Update 24 January: Keep an eye on the Etsy shop — within a week giclee prints of Small Forest will be available, with a portion of each sale going to Hope for Haiti Now.

The Poppytalk blog is running their first annual “Poppies” virtual awards contest… and Cloudery (specifically Cloudery’s Etsy shop) has been nominated in the category of “Favorite Handmade Affordable Art / Artist“! An honor, to be sure! Voting is open now, and will continue until 11:59 p.m. January 27. The winners will receive support and recognition from Poppytalk and gain a great deal of exposure to the wide Poppytalk readership. Please head on over to Poppytalk to vote. Only one vote per computer, so choose your vote wisely! Thank you!

Fiber Evidence / Taoist Clouds (080). Pen and ink on Moleskine watercolor paper, 7 x 5 inches. January 2010.

Nesting (058), February 2009. Pen & ink on Cartiera Magnani Italia Acquerello Portofino hot press watercolor paper, 8 x 8 in. square.