Artist Statement

@studioworkinprogress

Kallagraphic Not Precious Protest Series

Mixed Media Collage Series Fall 2018

Re-Creation

Recycled

Repurposed

            

I like the results I am producing

I like looking at my new work

Historical work too

Sometimes I hit a wall

I’m stubborn I get around it

Then I am excited again

The anxiety seems distance

And I want to share my art

If I can squeeze sharing within

Pleasure and excitement before

Insecurity and judgement take me out

And lay me low again

Five years plus into my return to the world of fine art, drawing and painting have left me with file drawers full of work on paper. Five plus years of hiking, files of maps. Photographs, and digital art archive. Writing and poetry as well.

Surrounded with new nurturing relationships, my partnership with Joel, a few older precious friendships, my ‘nuclear’ family, a unique life palette is emerging.

Studio Work In Progress

Talking to myself
https://www.instagram.com/studioworkinprogress


Finally came up with a solution to Grace and Faith triptych with the pieces of torn watercolor / ink I did at Bella’s several months ago that I had used most of on ‘Excitement’ triptych.

Grace and Faith
diptych_mixed media collage

Seemed appropriate that I would use work I made at Bella's since she critiqued this piece.

As I was pasting on the pieces, the ink on the board smeared onto the waxed paper I was using the roller on, creating a monoprint! So I decided to use a pencil drawing I did on vellum as a substraight to print on when I rolled the other pieces of glued torn watercolor to the piece. WahLah! I picked up enough color onto the vellum to make it look purposeful.

Then I ran across the studio to the newspaper I had ready to go and started to paste the vellum onto the the article.

Since I had the brush with the acrylic medium on it, I decided what better time to put colors on the glass pallet and give it a try! So I did. Primary colors and the medium I had been using, Soft gel semi-gloss.

It was all very spontaneous and I was getting results I liked as I progressed.

I worked it so hard I knocked the board the newspaper was gorilla clipped to behind the shelf I use to work on. I caught it and kept going.

Newsprint it pretty lightweight substrate for the beating I was giving it so I found the board I had been doing my tests on and slathered it with the medium and carefully layer the art on top the way I wanted it. It was going good. I covered it and rolled it down, creating wrinkles in the paper. I liked that too.

Medium was squeezing out the back. Because the medium had picked up the color from the paint, I smeared it on to the artwork where there was no color yet. Good.

I let it sit for a bit then ripped the excess paper off the board and repurposed some of the text and the border, along with the ripped vellum. Done!

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Do I have to spell it all out?

No, really, asking for a friend.

Process / Reprocess

        

Acrylics!

Materials Testing: Golden Heavy Body Acrylics

Primaries on glass palette

Mixing colors on heavy paper

Monoprint from palette to vellum paper

Second run on bond paper

Acrylics dry quickly, turns to colorful glue

Clean up was easy

#lifedrawing #fibonacci #watersoluablegraphite

#lightnincoyote studio #tuesdays #election

Sometimes it is difficult to get in the groove. Maybe because it was mid-terms election night? I'm learning to recognize temporary discomfort. One thing I do is mix things up, helped along by 1st Tuesday Fibonacci sequenced music indicating when the model will change poses. Which led me to my pan of soluble graphite and water brush. This time it worked.

That and a beer...not just any beer...

Soooo Good! I tried to finish it.

...that proceeded to knock my ass back into the chair, so that I had to stay till the life drawing
cleared out at 10 and the artist musicians took out the instruments that Sebastian and his dad built, a mandolin, guitar and 6 string Banjitar, which is a bando-guitar, plus a well loved song book, and a hardy trio of voices! 

Thanks for hosting, Sebastian.