Grandfather Mountain Bleak Midwinter Note Cards are from an original watercolor and ink painting. The technique used for this landscape was taught to me by Duluth, Minnesota artist Cheng Khee Chee who I had the privilege to study with several times in the past. It uses a ground of crinkled rice paper soaked in water and mounted with paste glue to #300 lb cold pressed watercolor paper. This results in unique textural characteristics when painted over with watercolor or sumi ink when damp. This landscape gives the feeling of the intense cold that occurs after a heavy snowfall with a cloudless late afternoon atmosphere! There is a little warm color in places, but not enough to keep you from shivering a bit!
Notecards come in a choice of either Linen textured matte paper or Photo Gloss paper and are packaged as 10 - 5"x7" Single Image cards with envelopes in a box with a clear front.
