4×4″ acrylic, marker on paper
I know. This is completely ridiculous. When I scraped this, I saw a figure playing the piano, sliding downhill. But I decided to make it going uphill (or sliding backward downhill, perhaps)…just because. It reminds me that my piano is lonely these days, and that I need and want to sit down and play a little. Maybe this week….
4.25×5.5″ acrylic on paper
A scrape, a smear, and some wiggly lines cut into the paint. Back to blue, with hints of magenta and more below.
4×4″ acrylic, marker on paper
Here is a “quick” daily jane in three phases, combining paint dots, paint scrapes, and marker doodles. The end.
I realize that I should be posting the green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, but I have nothing useful in green right now. And I am prone to breaking the rules, anyway.
I have knitted and otherwise used up a bunch of the “solar downpour” yarn from my friend at Blue Gate Farm (via a gift from my cousin Melissa) making various sizes and types of yarn “circles” for a future art project. Now I’m about ready to start the painting one of these will accompany. The problem? I can’t decide whether I prefer the felted version (above on the left) or the soumak version (lower on the right). Tell me which one YOU like, and why? 🙂
6×6″ acrylic on paper
Instead of rolling acrylic paint onto this print block, I scraped it on to make the imprints. These are three side-by-side images from the same block. I then scraped some transparent raw sienna directly onto the paper after the prints were dry.
Initially I was thinking of this more as a bundling of grasses, but I started thinking of the sienna as oil in the grasses, and then thought of the shapes as snake-like, and then thought of the term “snake oil,” and that relates to what the oil companies are trying to sell the Iowa public regarding the “benefits” of the diagonal pipeline through Iowa. With the Utilities Board decision from yesterday fresh in my mind…that’s how I arrived at the title.
6×6″ acrylic on paper
Scraped acrylic, transparent over transparent. Pillars at sunset, maybe. Magenta is still my friend.
8×7″ acrylic on matboard
Two passes of scraped acrylic, transforming each other into what you see here—simple, enjoyable (to me, anyway) colorplay.
11×7.5″ acrylic on matboard
This painting is all scraped acrylic in at least two phases.
10×8″ acrylic, collage on paper
This has been percolating for a few months. I cut out the article in the November 22, 2015 Des Moines Register after writing “seriously?!” in the margin. Matt saved it for me mentioning that it might be useful in an art piece. I made an enlarged copy of the article—really just a brief news item from around Iowa—and saved it. This week I picked it back up. I first scraped the reds/magentas/crimson on the paper. Then I adhered the pieces of paper on top of that. The next layer is some blockprinting with various blocks I made in the last year using acrylic paint. I added some brushed on transparent acrylic where I wanted to highlight the printed content a little more. Hopefully you can read it if you click on the image to make it bigger.
digital photo
I’ve been working on this over the past few days. I knitted this yarn (spun and dyed by my Blue Gate Farmher friend Jill, and gifted to me by my cousin Melissa) into a circle. (Well, truth be told, I have knitted three circles…so far…trying to get the right size.) Then I felted it—this is only felted once so far; another session is coming. And it’s only an extreme close-up because it will hopefully be part of a larger art piece in the future and I’m not quite ready to share the details. Stay tuned!