Blue Tits Art Print, Signed Limited Edition Watercolor

Two Eurasian blue tits on a spruce branch, the blue cap, white cheeks and yellow breast of the commonest and best loved garden bird in Europe. The needles are painted in green and teal in long wet strokes, the cones in brown with each scale drawn, and there are yellow and orange washes behind. It is a portrait format and the most detailed of my garden bird paintings. It goes mostly to Britain and Germany, often with the bullfinch.

Why it is a limited edition

Each print is made in an edition of 150, and I sign and number every copy in pencil under the image. The edition is small so that every copy can be made properly: the file is scanned from the painting itself, printed on museum-quality cotton paper with archival pigment inks, compared with the original in daylight and corrected until the colours match, and only then signed. When the last copy is sold, the edition closes for good.

Paper, inks and sizes

• Archival pigment inks on acid-free, museum-quality watercolor paper, so the texture of the original is kept
• Framed canvas options in a black wooden frame, ready to hang
• 15 sizes, from 8 x 10 in (20 x 26 cm) to 40 x 55 in (100 x 140 cm)
• Small sizes ship flat in rigid cardboard, large sizes rolled in a hard tube, worldwide with tracking

The frame is not included unless the option says Framed Canvas. Not sure which size fits your wall? Write to me with the width of the furniture under it and I will suggest one. Reproduction rights remain with the artist.