6×6″ acrylic, ink on watercolor paper
Scraping, brushing, printing—all with acrylic paint. Lettering with gel pen.
Today’s quote is from my interview with Indianola artist and former Simpson College art professor Janet Hart Heinicke.
october 28
8×5″ acrylic, marker on sketchbook page
I scraped and block-printed acrylic on this page, then added the lettering. The quote is from my 1999 interview with artist Christine Kelly Lohr in the small town of Churdan, Iowa.
october 27
5×8″ acrylic, marker on sketchbook page
This began with a leftover scrape to use up some wet paint. I added the blues and greens with layers of brushwork, and added some deeper magenta over the blob and added more lines of magenta over the blues and greens.
The quote is from my interview with Des Moines artist and teacher Betty Fitzsimmons.
october 26
8.5×5.5″ acrylic, pen, marker on watercolor paper
This has acrylic paint scraped, printed, and dabbed onto the paper, as well as various pens and markers accessorizing the painting.
Today’s good advice is from artist and Iowa State professor
Ingrid Lilligren. As always, clicking on the image will give you a larger, better resolution image to see and read.
october 25
digital photo, modified
This is a photo I took recently of a beautiful leaf. I zoomed in, increased saturation, and then converted it to a infrared black-and-white version. I added the layer of words by Iowa photographic artist Carol Macomber.
october 24
5×8″ acrylic, ink on sketchbook page
I scraped some acrylic paint on rather thick, then cut into it with a newly-modified 5-tined hair comb to create the lines. I added some brushed and dabbed acrylic around the scraped area, then after a lot of drying time, lettered the words.
The quote is from my friend and talented composer/musician/knitter/lawyer Renae Angeroth who said this during my interview with her as part of my Beyond 9-11 project (her song was selected by an independent judge for inclusion). (She also composed a new musical theatre piece, Palace of the Fields, that had its first public reading in late August of this year.) In addition to creating beautiful music and knitted projects herself, she is a great supporter of her artist friends.
october 23
5×8″ acrylic, ink on sketchbook page
I scraped, brushed, and palette-knifed acrylic paint to create this piece. The quote is from an interview with artist Ellen Wagener. We talked in DeWitt, Iowa, where she lived at the time. Ellen now lives in Arizona.
october 22
5×8″ acrylic, ink on sketchbook page
This is brushed on acrylic paint and lettering with marker. I had a few moments during the painting process of wanting to take the advice of “starting over” with this one. But…here it is.
Today’s words of wisdom are from Urbandale artist, Laurayne Robinette—who also happens to be my mom! She has modeled resilience and persistence (and beauty!) in her artwork as well as her life. How lucky am I?
october 21
5×8″ ink marker, colored pencil, watercolor pencil on sketchbook page
Doodling—originally I thought I would do marker doodling all over the white spaces. But I thought it might look too busy and it would be even harder to read the quote. And it would have taken more time, probably. In any case, after the marker and colored pencil work, I used two colors (blue and lavender) on the background with a tiny bit of yellow around the artist’s name.
The artist I’m quoting, Emily Martin, lived and worked in Iowa City at the time of my interview (1998). She was making a lot of artist’s books at that time, as well as paintings and sculpture.
october 20
5×8″ acrylic, ink on sketchbook page
The acrylic paint was applied mostly with a palette knife. The lighter blue coloring in the background was brushed on. Artist Jo Myers-Walker is the speaker of today’s quote. She was living in Ames when I interviewed her. She now lives in Iowa City and is still very active as an artist and teacher. You can read and see more on her blog.