12th Anniversary CUSTOM Sandhill Crane Silk Print, Anniversary Silk order Print, Sandhill Crane Bird Wall Art, Anniversary Gift LadyWhoLovesBirds

12th Anniversary CUSTOM Sandhill Crane Silk Print, Anniversary Silk Print, Sandhill Crane Bird Wall Art, Anniversary Gift LadyWhoLovesBirds

This is a very lovely SILK PRINT depicting TWO Cranes feeding with heads and beaks reaching down through the reeds and into the water. Framing including mat are for display purposes only and not included in this listing.

These CRANES can really be either Sandhill Cranes or Whooping Cranes. I have only seen the Sandhill but would feel so privileged to see the Whooping Crane, which is highly endangered.

The design is printed onto paper-backed SILK Habotai. This SILK is designed to run through my exceptional printer and takes the inks beautifully. The size of the print is 8.5" X 11 (this includes a 1/4 inch white border for framing purposes) and will come with a backing board of 1/4" archival foam core and in a plastic sleeve. This is a lovely print. Colors are very rich. The quality of the print is wonderful. A complimentary, matching greeting card on fine card stock is included.

The design is from an original BATIK I created in 2018. The original is available and is the same size as this print. Message me if you are interested. I have yet to list any of my originals and that will be changing.

BATIK is a unique process of using hot wax to DRAW the design; the wax creates a RESIST. Dyes are added either by painting them on or by dipping the fabric into a vat of the desired color. The waxed design remains since the wax resists the dying. This process of waxing and dying/painting is repeated over and over as the fabric slowly fills up with wax, until the entire fabric is wax except for the final dying, which is the darkest, often black, and creates outlining features and the final crackle. "Crackle" is a signature component of BATIK and is created by the cracking of the wax, allowing the dye to seep in. It is sometimes hard to comprehend without actually seeing it done. I often compare the process to Easter egg dying. Think of using a wax crayon to write your name. Then you dip the egg into a cup of yellow dye. You now have a yellow egg with white name. You let the egg dry. Then you want yellow polka dots. So using your wax crayon, you wax out polka dots. Now you dip the egg into a cup of blue dye. Blue over yellow is green, right? So now you have a green egg, with yellow polka dots and a white name. The final waxing will be to create green lines. So we draw the wax crayon onto the areas of the green egg where we want lines. Doing rings around the center is nice. Our final dipping of the egg is into a dark, dark navy blue. So we end of with a dark, navy blue egg, with green rings, yellow polka dots and white writing for your name.

This design is one of MY personal favorites and is a completely original design.

I like my followers to know that fully 20% of the profit of this print will go to my local non-profit, Native Animal Rescue of Santa Cruz. They are a wonderful and necessary rescue facility that has helped our injured and orphaned wildlife over and over and over. I can't say enough about them. So know that your purchase will be helping wildlife.

Thank you for viewing for shop. I hope you order take a moment to noodle around. I am in the process of revamping it so pardon my dust.

Shipping is FREE for this item.

Alexa