Category: My Art
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This is my work.
When I make my funky yard art it will seem as if I am playing, wasting time, or pursuing an odd obsession. All of this may be true, but beyond that this is my work. Nice ambiguity in the English grammar here, of course. Both meanings are good. My new screening panel is not a…
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Adding color to prints
Adding color to prints by hand, using paint or drawing materials, is an old tradition. Hand tinted prints, colored by the original artist (usually the printmaker was not the artist, but the skilled craftsperson!), may be more valuable than editions of prints untouched by the original artist. Of course the value of the print depends…
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Northwind Arts Center painting demonstration
I enjoyed watching & listening to the last half of two painting demonstrations at Northwind Arts Center yesterday, when I arrived to sit the gallery desk. The two artists featured in the current exhibit, Kristi Galindo Dyson and Jackie VanNoy, were working and talking about how they work, in conjunction with their current exhibit, Creative Play.…
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Is it about Art or the Perfection of the Print?
Or Why I will never be a Printmaker Yesterday was another fun day at the print shop (Corvidae Press), but my results are not quite as pleasing as on my previous poly litho printmaking attempts. I made two new plates, one directly from an original pencil drawing transferred to the polyester plate using a laser…
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Aquarelle pencil sketch
I took my new Faber-Castell aquarelle pencil set with me on a two night RV trip to Lake Sylvia St. Park (Montesanto, WA). These are lovely soft graphite pencils, packaged with the perfect paintbrush…
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New poly litho prints from Monday, plus …
Click for lightbox display of three prints and an old plate revisited!
