Osa Creek, color

Hand-colored etching. Image size: 5 3/4” high x 7 3/4” wide. Paper size: 11” high x 15” wide.

Exhibited in Earthtones, Paso Robles Art Association exhibit, March 2 – April 30, 2024.

Exhibited at Paso Robles Public Library, July and August 2023 (solo exhibit). Curated into The Undition, Central Coast Printmakers exhibit, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, June 4 – August 1, 2021. (The original oil painting of this scene, Osa Creek at Kern River, was juried into The Colors of Water exhibit at Studios on the Park, May 28 – June 26, 2011.)

A study in dappled sunlight. This is Osa Creek just before it joins the Kern River in the heart of the Golden Trout Wilderness. It’s hot and dry, but a number of summer thunderstorms had come through in previous weeks. You can see evidence of the changing water levels in the sandy bank under the nearest tree.

The line thicknesses vary widely, but are the result of using oak dowels as styluses. The tips were carved to different widths. All the lines were drawn in one session and the plate was etched in a single bath. Printed in brown ink, then hand-colored with watercolors.

Elegantly framed by The Artworks, Paso Robles.

Available. Please contact David to purchase or for more information. Prices do not include sales tax and shipping.

• One of a kind, hand-colored etching

Copyright watermark is not part of print. And the image edges are straight, this is just a snapshot.