This delicate vine with tendrils is as sweet on your wall as it tastes in real life. A Kijari melon the size of a softball, lobed in deep rust, reddish brown, and yellow-green following the lobes, with part of the vine and leaves still attached and a small yellow blossom near the end. It sits on a rustic tray with two handles. The whole arrangement lives in the lower quarter of the image — the top three-quarters is a wide, open field of Dutch gold.
My fellow gardeners in New Mexico turned me onto this beautiful fruit. When it becomes ripe, the colors turn to these tones of bronze and greens.
Luminous Kijari Melon is printed in archival pigment ink on vellum, then gilded on the reverse with Dutch gold leaf through a series of steps in my Rio Rancho, New Mexico studio. The gold behind the image gives the print a glow that shifts with the light in the room — and with three-quarters of the image in open gold, this one has room to glow.
Sizes & prices (unframed): 11×14 in · $165 · 16×20 in · $350 · 20×24 in · $450 — unframed, so you choose the frame that suits your room. Each size is an edition of 20 — when they're gone, they're gone.
Details — Subject: Kijari melon with vine, leaves, tendrils and yellow blossom on a rustic two-handled tray · Composition: subject in the lower quarter; upper three-quarters open Dutch gold field · Materials: archival pigment ink on vellum; Dutch gold leaf · Edition: limited to 20 per size · signed and numbered · Includes: care card / COA
Care: Keep from prolonged direct sunlight and high humidity.
Shipping: Handmade at the time of ordering — allow up to one week for production before shipping, at your speed of choice. · Pay in 4 with Klarna or Afterpay at checkout.
Questions? kevin@blackinc.net — happy to send detail shots.
This delicate vine with tendrils is as sweet on your wall as it tastes in real life. A Kijari melon the size of a softball, lobed in deep rust, reddish brown, and yellow-green following the lobes, with part of the vine and leaves still attached and a small yellow blossom near the end. It sits on a rustic tray with two handles. The whole arrangement lives in the lower quarter of the image — the top three-quarters is a wide, open field of Dutch gold.
My fellow gardeners in New Mexico turned me onto this beautiful fruit. When it becomes ripe, the colors turn to these tones of bronze and greens.
Luminous Kijari Melon is printed in archival pigment ink on vellum, then gilded on the reverse with Dutch gold leaf through a series of steps in my Rio Rancho, New Mexico studio. The gold behind the image gives the print a glow that shifts with the light in the room — and with three-quarters of the image in open gold, this one has room to glow.
Sizes & prices (unframed): 11×14 in · $165 · 16×20 in · $350 · 20×24 in · $450 — unframed, so you choose the frame that suits your room. Each size is an edition of 20 — when they're gone, they're gone.
Details — Subject: Kijari melon with vine, leaves, tendrils and yellow blossom on a rustic two-handled tray · Composition: subject in the lower quarter; upper three-quarters open Dutch gold field · Materials: archival pigment ink on vellum; Dutch gold leaf · Edition: limited to 20 per size · signed and numbered · Includes: care card / COA
Care: Keep from prolonged direct sunlight and high humidity.
Shipping: Handmade at the time of ordering — allow up to one week for production before shipping, at your speed of choice. · Pay in 4 with Klarna or Afterpay at checkout.
Questions? kevin@blackinc.net — happy to send detail shots.
A short video on the making of this image
