Making Arrangements
When you are getting started with an experimental piece, be sure to document the work! Sometimes experiments fail, but the photos can become artworks in their own right!
These are evolving into a new series: TACTTF ( = They All Came to the Funeral :-). Of course all four images here are versions of myself…
This is the last prepared blank duck egg in my collection: now it is the “scribble egg” or the “climbing egg”.
I do have one more blank egg: it is an ostrich egg! It needs some prep work before I can draw on it. It seems to have a fairly glossy coating that I probably have to sand before I work on it. Also I want to think about how to display it, and decide whether to fill the conspicuous holes used to empty it.
Curly Twigs IIa digital
I am on Susie’s list for art on the walls at 1012 Coffee Bar in July. I have lots of new work ready to hang; work that has not been displayed in town. But how to choose? I want to have professional looking “show”, with works that look good together and in this narrow display space. I would also like to price the work suitably, and choose some work that might actually sell (so probably something fairly affordable). Of course I don’t want to under price work that I would just as soon keep to hang at home, or might hope to show off in a gallery somewhere.
I could frame and show some digital prints as well as original works, and price them accordingly. But P.T. art customers probably don’t buy framed copies much, when there is a lot of affordable original work around. I should probably give up on the idea of sales. The odds are that nothing will sell, and that would certainly simplify things!
But I still don’t know what to show!
I think I need help!
Burials the Drawing, framed
It would be so lovely to have a professional framer doing the work, and to choose custom frames, but that is not an option on my budget, so I store cheap used frames, and re-use them. I have to be creative with sizes, since I rarely mange to end up with a finished piece that fits the size & style of mat and/or frame available.
It is quite a challenge, and a major chore. My studio is not very clean, never dust free, and I have to try very hard to avoid including fragments of art materials, fingerprints, and more inside my glass. I find it all stressful, but what a relief it is when I am finished! Now I just hope no one will find something unacceptable that I have missed seeing! Still, if they do see a problem, I hope they tell me…
Burials the Drawing draft 7
It contains several elements that appear in my work: the soft, pillowy “fields”, the wrapped figures, and the organic, leafy elements. And smudging, of course! All this rather satisfies my psyche in some way. While some may find my mummy figures and these more abstract wrapped shapes worrisome or even morbid, I do not. I find them somehow comfortable/comforting!
Curly Twigs V draft 11
Recent changes mean I scan twice, then merge down onto an earlier full scan. Getting it all aligned is a real pain, and I know I am off by a few pixels… and those errors multiply! Very tedious.
Curly Twigs V photo in frame
You may even note the small changes (especially to upper left curved “twig”) in this photograph taken after framing (too lazy to take out and rescan now!) As you can see, the lighting & color are rather different in the photo (vs. the scanned image at top).
