Category: My Art

I have reworked/completed three more older prints: “Fire on the Mountain”, “Fire on the Beach”, and “Fire at Sea”. All three started out as hand pulled prints, originally printed at Corvidae Press in Ft. Worden State Park. The first is a monoprint using stencils. Fire on the Beach was printed using two plates: a linocut…

Here is another artwork that I started long ago, now completed by adding collage elements. The images left to right: the early version, the new version, and then the final mounting: I am afraid that the earlier version was already sufficient. It consisted of the watercolor window with cutout trees superimposed, with the tracing of…

Most of the time I start work without much of a plan, and this mixed media painting is no exception! I started work using watercolors over a found background on a 16″x20″ canvas board. The four images below are progressive stages/drafts of this piece. The fiery end result evolved from the simplistic ghostly dead trees…

I have been taught about the value of presentation. A fabulous painting or lovely drawing will be better “seen” by others if it well presented. This may mean framing, or I may choose mounting for presentation. Mounting an artwork to a board or panel may be more appropriate. I don’t want my work behind glass,…

It is time for a bit more collage fun with some older elements retrieved from my flat files! I found some drawings already cut out, then stashed away. Note also one more mummy print now updated with watercolors. And of course I have to scan these and tryout some digital variations, so the right hand…

I like using ghost prints. I often made a ghost print back in my printmaking days, unless I was printing an edition. And that was infrequent as I preferred the variety of unique prints. A ghost print is the second or even third image pulled from the plate without re-inking. Sometimes, very occasionally, a ghost…