Shoebill Art Print, Signed Limited Edition Watercolor

A shoebill standing in profile among leaves, the huge grey bird from the swamps of East Africa with a bill like a wooden clog and a stare that does not move. I painted the bird in slate, blue-grey and lilac with the feathers drawn in a fine line, the bill in peach and brown, and the leaves around it in orange, teal and violet with splashes. It is a portrait format and a favourite with people who have seen one at a zoo and never forgotten it.

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.