Upping the Ante: black is the new black
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- A bit murky, but now presented a doubly hinged “card”
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- Open the card to this, then use tab at right to open the “window”
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- Now I love this one!
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- Section I retouched
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- Section II w/Additions
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- Finishing touches & presentation for a 2010 monoprint
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- Black is the New Black
This is mostly about finishing… three older monoprints with more work, and #1 and #3 are newly cropped to feature bettter design, focus, or detail. The last reworked piece is pastel on black canvas, now given a color boost and the addition of blacker black!
More rework on a bad print gone right?
Sketchbook Project Entry #5 in the mail today
My fifth entry to the Brooklyn Art Library annual Sketchbook Tour went in the mail today, meeting the extended deadline of March 31st. This sketchbook will be on tour across the USA soon! Here is a sample of images (click a thumbnail to view the full images). The complete slideshow will be available soon.
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- The mailing envelope
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- Frontspiece
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- End pages
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- Reading the book
Sketching today: working on a theme?
Finishing up: presentation changes everything
Four linocut plates first printed in 2013 are the basis for this bones scroll. It may be finished now, but I am never quite sure … The print now has additional graphite paintings (of bones) top & bottom, and is presented in a corrugated & tasseled scroll “casing”. My painting “The Burden” has also had quite a bit more work, including added color and layers of gel medium, is now mounted onto 24″x24″ painted board. It can be hung as is, or considered ready for framing.
Working with thick gesso, and more …
Digital work from new sketches
Mystery in the Mist, January in Boundary Bay, B.C.
Embedded Art, on my new sidewalk
I embedded a few twigs & leaves in five spots of my new “freeway”: the concrete sidewalk between the house & my studio that lets me charge back and forth safely even in the dark. The concrete was pretty hard & I was in a hurry, so I did not get much done. but these are fun and I am adding color & resin. It won’t last very long outside, but it amuses me for now. The imprint of a salal leaf may be the best one!
