"Kiwitt, kiwitt! Wat fuern schoen Vagel buen ick!" (Please don't try to correct my German. That is Plattdeutsch, and not only that, it is Old Plattdeutsch.) "Tweet, tweet! What a beautiful bird I am!"

So now you know the kind of things that rattle around in an artist's head while he is painting.

As for the print. Well. It isn't your ordinary print. I call these recreations. What it is, is a photographic print of the painting, which in this case was acrylic on linen, that I have redone, using the photograph as a drawing. You have probably seen things where the artist dabbed a few splashes of paint on a print and called it hand painted. Frankly, I think that is cheating. This isn't the same thing at all. It is pretty much a whole new painting. You will probably have a hard time finding any photograph, because the whole surface has been covered.

The substrate of the print is polyester. It isn't sensitive to acids like paper is. It is bonded to polyester artist's canvas and stretched over a durable rigid panel. It is in a frame. It doesn't have glass on top of the picture like most prints, because it doesn't need it. You will have a hard time telling it isn't an original, which was the idea. I took one of these to the lab once so the technician could match it, and he thought it was the original painting ... which was pretty impressive, because he was looking at the print he had made for me the week before. Of course, I guess it wasn't really that print anymore. (Note: I also have some pigment transfers, the description of which sounds similar. However, that is a completely different kind of print.)

Original: Acrylic painting on linen, 24 x 32 (sold).

This is a limited edition of only ten, and this print here is number one. The original sold for $2800, but the re-creation is only $700, plus $25 for shipping because I'll have to build a box to ship it in.