Category: My Art
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My Grasses Series takes a turn
This new grass/textures meditation took a different turn halfway across the page. It started out as shading, mirroring and quite abstract, but then forms emerged… and then print, add a touch of color, and rescan:
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Outside my comfort zone: Dragons
This piece started continues my Tangled Twigs series, but with a very different twist. Inspired by the theme of the upcoming juried show at a local gallery, I decided to emphasize color and fantasy. I am not comfortable working with either! I don’t plan to enter the show at Northwinds Art Gallery, being a bit…
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Soft on Grey Art Board
This continuation of my texture meditations started with embossing & black conte crayon, then graphite pencil. It was very dull, but I did not want high contrast black & white, so I added a little color. I used colored pencil (including metallics), pan pastel, and for the extra touch you cannot really see in…
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Trying to get satisfaction…
This tangled twig drawing on paper evokes a nest of snakes … and it is getting more interesting. At first it was soft, delicate and irritatingly bland… I worked on it but my efforts to add & improve were failing, so I set it aside. Returning to it now, I am bolder with changes. The…
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Thinking about a show…
Thinking about work for a show, and I find all of these works were completed Aug 2012 – Jan 2013. So I seem to be fairly productive in my new studio! The images are not to scale: sizes vary from one 9″x12″, several in between size, and the largest is 24″x18″. This is not everything.…
