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How a walk on the beach became a stunning artwork

August 5, 2020 by Nic Bailey Leave a Comment

I was walking along the beach in Narrawallee on the NSW South Coast when I came across the body of a dead cicada. It was almost perfect. I picked it up and took it home, where it sat on my desk for several years.

Eventually I decided to photograph it before it became too damaged, and from there I started playing around in photoshop. The obvious next step was to make a screen print of it!

Cicada photo split into four channels

Once its split into four channels the colour combinations are almost endless.

The final print used silver, gold, burgundy and black on a cream paper stock.

Framed Cicada Screenprint
Framed Cicada Screenprint

Filed Under: Photography, Printmaking Tagged With: cicada, printmaking, screenprinting

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