If you read my previous post “Making Old Work New” you will already have the drift. I am studio clearing, finishing, renewing, and discarding. Here I have added color to two older works: a pencil drawing and a photo etching.

I am quite charmed by beetles, but this insect seems to be more of a fantasy fly, enjoying a flower. Once only a delicate pencil drawing, now in watercolor and as digital foiled versions of each.

The print is a variation of my strider/running woman that may represent my own flight from the “big city” and from my 9-5 (well 9-5:30 with a 30 minute lunch…) job at Boeing Computer Services. . We left Seattle for Port Townsend in 1998 and were more or less self employed one way or another for another 10 years before settling into art for me, and real retirement with fruit trees, motorcycles, and old RVs to work on (M)J.

This small print is just black ink and the figure alone. So each print has seen very different additions over time. Here I added a landscape in watercolor with a bit of colored pencil used in the buildings.

So I continue with more old work renewed.