My Moon Snail in clear resin (with various embedded items) has been mounted into a very lightly tinted circle with a hint of green gold and more embedded items. It may be destined to be a light fixture, a lit sculpture, or to hang in a window: to be determined! It will get another bit of clear resin when the next shipment arrives. In the meantime, I have played with a photo or three, adding that old digital pixel dust!
Madrona
Products for Sale
The above images are available for sale printed on a large line of clothing, housewares, and miscellaneous useful items. All at my newest print-on-demand site: RedBubble. View these and other works at: www.redbubble.com/people/ptartist/
I confess I have not ordered or seen their products yet, but the site has good reviews, and I expect the products will be satisfactory! If not, I will pull my art off & delete my account!
Arrival is a richly textured & deep colored image featuring a silhouetted figure evokes a nameless mystery.
Taken Apart: New Game (image lower right in collection above) is a deconstructed drawing with digital transformations, available on the full RedBubble product line.
Leaves
Flora
Molds and Makings
My “Blue Ruins” mold has now been involuntarily retired after five casts. It was such a compromised mold that I am delighted to get any good casts from it! It tore today when I removed it from the second concrete cast (digital foil of the photo above right).
I have been working on several epoxy casts: a clear moon snail with some embedments (below right), another clear sleeper with an embedded face, and using the extra epoxy on each mix up to make smaller items. Some of these are shown below and above left. I have also used the clear epoxy to mount a small two piece residue resin cast from 1995: the kneeling figure above. I have a full 3-D cast of this, and a couple of half/relief casts, but this one was made with insufficient leftover resin, so the head & arms are incomplete. I find it quite interesting, so I kept it: apparently for this very piece of acrylic, test scratched as a plate for printing!
Revised Poem
Writing
A Challenge to Collage
The challenge was to create a collage piece with this tree print and these two leaves (drawings) and something to represent the seed: Parts & Ages of the tree/life.
These are digital works only: I adjusted the scale and modified the seeds drawing in various ways. It took several iterations to get this far, and I am not quite sure which I like best at this point.
Resin Casts Finish Work
I am plugging away on resin casts (both this “Ruins” and my Moon Snail. Somehow they just look naked when they emerge from the mold. At first the new cast delights me: if the casting is a success I have a new “baby”! But after a few days I find myself a bit less satisfied…
So that is when I start to play with the surface, brushing or rubbing on a little pigment. This helps to bring these casts into the real world, where uniformity and cleanliness are rare. I take photos and or scans along the way: this helps me see what is working (or not).
This version of the Ruins has four pigments rubbed on here and there, and a clear matte archival coat.