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Shadow on Lines Overlap
Category Archives: My Art
What do you see in this sketch?
Surely these ARE burials?
More … Burials? or Metamorphosis?
Burial Series: sculpture
Sketches from Friday at Northwind Arts Center
Figure in the Grass
I take my pencils and a sketchbook when I sit the Northwind Arts Center galleries once a month. Occasionally the exhibit inspires me directly, at other times work on display flavors my latest drawings as I draw at their (rather fabulous) desk. On Friday I started with the idea of working larger with my Grasses series. However I will probably need to take that into a new media: I can’t scale up the way I use pencils… and still have fun! Then my theme of wrapping and bandages entered my sketch. We’ll see if this works into a finished image at some point; I think it will appear again.
In fact I am doing some digital work with this scan, adjusting the the figure visibility a bit, while still keeping it lost in the grass…
Figure in the Grass, with digital mods
In the Print Shop …
Wheat Field with Poppies
Untitled, lino cut
Snakes in the Grass
I have been working on several new plates, mostly relief plates of various easy cut. But I have started on one low-tech etching plate and a collograph. I have only printed from these so far… But here is the scan of another plate:
Plate Scan: Kneeling Figure
Make a guess
Mind your own beeswax…
After the Spring Rain
I recall this as quite the favorite saying at some point in my childhood. But here beeswax is put to a different use. All the elements in the plate are coated with wax, and are the detritus in the gutter after a spring storm.
Bandages
The other piece is less obvious, and must be viewed more closely. Pieces of medical gauze drenched in melted beeswax wrap the spheres, which are scarred and marked with smears of brown & red, evoking wounds. Various small scraps of other material create texture and interest on these wounded globes…
Bandages, close-up
I have submitted this second piece, Bandages, to upcoming juried show at the Northwind Art Center. I don’t know if has enough impact or conveys the theme well enough. However it certainly fits the theme, being of a style, subject and medium that is “outside my comfort range”! I failed to get a hanger on the first piece in time to enter it.
