Category Archives: My Art
Babies They All Grow on Trees
Death amidst life
These are pages of a book that honors a life now closed.
The crystal ship with the recumbent figure is work that came together slowly. Like much of my work, the final piece is assembled from parts I created along the way. While I had a special desire to create a “crystal ship”, I did not plan the final work in advance.
This figure, which resembled a good friend, became a memorial to him when he died, and it fit into my crystal ship perfectly. The symbolism of the ship is relevant both to him, as an individual fascinated by ocean explorations, and more broadly to all of us. All of us who have sailed, or will soon sail away. It is a deeply personal piece.
I attached the figure and the few special objects to the crystal resin ship. The work sits on a lightweight wrapped wire stand that I made for it. I have photographed it in many settings.
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Can’t Stop Angels
Never Finished Sad Angels Collage
Parting: Sad Angels
This is a scan of (most of) a mostly finished collage using two of my drawings. The “sad angels” started as a graphite drawing, which I scanned as usual. I created a couple of digital variations, then worked further on the printed pieces to finish these three sad angels. The abstract wooded scene scan has been enlarged, and is also further modified after printing. The figures, leaf drawing, and feather print are attached with matte medium.
The collage is a little too big for my scanner, so the top & both sides are cropped. And of course I cannot resist trying out a digital foil variation:
Black Hole, Sound and Fury
Made and Found
I made the dragonfly shown above very quickly, as an experiment with Creative Paperclay. I hate waste, so I mounted it on an ( cheap & irritating :-)) 6″x6″ canvas board that I had prepped and forgotten, adding various other remnants and parts that pile up around my studio! It will be mounted as a gift, probably for my two year old granddaughter’s bedroom.
I love the serendipity of the colors above: the daisies and the exquisite shell just found on a beach walk!
Nature Sketching
Yes, I do sketch… but irregularly and as inspired to do so. Never did want to fill up a sketchbook, draw every day, etc. I just don’t do that, and never did. Hated that in the two drawing classes way back in college! What I loved doing, drawing, became a tiresome chore. So no, I don’t do that! But I do sketch objects that inspire me, especially in my Wednesday evening group art sessions.
So last night I was charmed by a colorful speckled leaf, and by a clean, dry and oh so delicate crab skeleton. Drawing the full crab remains would take some hours, so I drew only some parts, and (surprise!) deviating a bit from reality!