The print is inked over encased feathers, and was too dark and monotonous in tone and hue. I took a paintbrush with thinned acrylic paint to the background. The digital piece is a transformation of a scanned monotype printing plate, also featuring a feather.
Broken Acrylic Sculpture
I am returning to scoring, drawing, and coloring sheet acrylic as a sculptural material. This experiment is small, 9″ long, and consists of 3 layers of jagged, broken thin acrylic. The base is painted wood. Two of the images below are digital transformations.
I am having fun, so I may need to acquire some larger pieces to continue with this idea.
Planning Sculpture
I have an intention to create three standing figures for placement under the wild cherry trees in front of my studio. I hope to make them approximately 4′ tall, varying the heights slightly. I am not sure what these statues will be made of, or even how they may eventually look; things change (especially in my art).
My concept is they will be simplified standing figures, very upright … a bit in the line of old-fashioned clothes peg dolls. So I started doodling, first in graphite & watercolor, followed by some digital pixel dust, of course.
The last concept is an attempt to get practical about implementation as a sculpture. It is based on using PVC or ABS pipes of various diameters for the figures, except for the head & shoulders. The figures could be free standing, with the pipe legs could fitted over stakes in the ground, that could run up into the torsos. Might work!
I could then pad & wrap the figures for cementitious outer layers if I want to add detail, curves and different proportions than available with pipes.
Oak Leaves
Ostrich Egg
Abstract Attempts Series
In the Abstract
Sketching in the Abstract
Sketches
Finishing this one
This is a painting in graphite and watercolor, just completed. It is one of my “Faces of the Women” series.
This series of paintings honors all the women who have come forward to describe the abuse they have suffered, and all the women who will never find the voice or the safe space to tell their own stories.
#MeToo