Category: art

water-based ink block print

This is a two-block lineoleum print from blocks that my soon-to-be-spouse and I made for the front of our wedding invitation. I dug the blocks out of our little wedding memorabilia box and made a new print with them. These colors are a little more purple-y/mauve-y than the original dusty rose colors, but the blocks have held up pretty well!

Special thanks to all of our family and friends who loved and supported us that cloudy, rainy (and a bit nervy) Saturday afternoon—and have continued to love and support us throughout these many years.

Love you, Matt. Here’s to 30 more! xoxo

8.25×8″ acrylic on matboard

Lots of texture in this scraped and dabbed painting. New life bursting out. I’m letting this go a little earlier than I should, perhaps. But the practice of letting go is probably as important as the practice of daily making.

9.5×7.5″ acrylic on matboard

Scraped and overscraped. I don’t know why, but I see climbing and hiding cats in this painting. That might ruin it for some of you—or make it for others. Enjoy!

8×6″, acrylic on matboard

Several years ago, a woman commissioned me to do a scraped painting of certain colors and then letter a popular poem (by “anonymous”) onto the painting. The color ideas were based on one of my poem-paintings that she saw somewhere. Commissions can be very tricky, especially if the client has a strong and certain image in their mind of what the product should look like. We finally got there, but I still have some early ones that I rejected.

Today’s painting is one of the rejects after I scraped some new paint over the old. The poem was about friendship, and the original colors were very spring-like, so I’ve titled this “spring friendship” even though the look of it has changed drastically. You can still read some of the words below the paint if you look closely. The partially hidden words make it a little more mysterious.

7.5×5.25″ mixed media

Here is some acrylic paint scraped and brushed on matboard, with some silk sari strips collaged on top.

digital photo

The flower and plant growth now emerging sported some lovely drops this morning after the sprinkles and mist and fog. This is a close-up of sedum with drops. The only thing I did other than zooming in on the computer is convert it to black and white. Just because.

6.25×6.25″ acrylic on matboard

Scraped paint over scraped paint again. This evokes for me of a gaggle of people gathered together—all ages and sizes and shapes, colorful characters in conversation, an array of food and clothing. Yeah, sounds about like a family reunion to me. 😉

9.5×7.5″ acrylic on matboard

Scraped paint over scraped paint.

3.5×2.5″ acrylic

This started with a little scraped paint (thick), that I cut into with a painter’s tool. I didn’t like those colors by themselves, so I added the purple around. Then the pink (which became more magenta when I went over the whole thing with diluted magenta glaze). In the end, it reminded me of Easter egg colors…and the somewhat circuitous movements (at times) of our local bunnies.

2.5×3.5″ acrylic

I slathered on a few colors of green and blue, then cut into it with a painting tool. Maybe did a little too much, but I was having fun.