6×6″ marker on paper
Well, this is as good as it gets this week. An unfinished work. I will be taking off a few weeks from even the lighter random, not-quite-daily jane grind, as we move to a new (to us) house in town. We are in the midst of packing chaos, and in order to make progress in the rest of my studio, I need to pack things up. So…stay tuned, and I’ll get back to sharing artwork on my blog as soon as I can. I hope to finish this unfinished by then! Be well!
digital photo
I was happy to see a neighbor along my neighborhood walking path growing a few milkweed plants for the monarchs, but sad to see this pod that had fallen (or been chewed) off onto the sidewalk. I walked past at first, but then decided to pick it up and take a photo of it once back home. So here’s a daily jane for a busy week. I’m going to try to eke out one more next week, then take August off (at least officially–I hope to still do some creating!).
6×6″ acrylic, ink on paper
I used a couple of different print blocks to start this out. Then I used a palette knife to create various lines with acrylic, a gel pen to embellish the printed circles a bit, and a sponge to apply the transparent paint in the middle. I am stopping here because I don’t want to go too far…but I’m not sure it’s done done.
6×6″ acrylic, marker on paper
This began with some paint scrapes. I was looking in my collage materials for some ideas for accessorizing, and I saw a series of wall paint sample strips. I liked these three words/phrases together so I cut them out and adhered them onto the paint. I decided to doodle with the marker and got a little carried away with that. And here it is. Sunburst Butter Lemon Meringue.
6×6″ acrylic on paper
The end of June. The end of half a year. I’ve been decidedly less than daily this year, and although that was my intention, I thought I might do a little more than I’ve been able to do these first six months. So be it.
This painting consists of layers of brushwork. What does it all mean? I have no idea. This is playing with paint.
I make no promises about the level of output for the rest of 2016. But I do have some ideas rumbling around that will require more days than one to reveal. I hope to keep playing with paint and other media and posting the results/process right here, though.
Carry on!
3.5×2.5″ acrylic with blockprinting
This is another little Artist Trading Card. I used acrylic with an existing print block, an ink brayer, and a brush to create this. I thought the blockprint might stand out a little more, but at least in person, it’s rather subtle. I also resisted the always lurking impulse to add other colors and layers. This one is done for today.
6×6″ acrylic block prints
This week is flying by, so today I took some time to play with four existing print blocks using acrylic paint.
3.5×2.5″ acrylic, marker
This is a delicate little scrape on a smooth Artist Trading Card, with gel marker lines drawn over the paint. The marker didn’t mark consistently over the different paint colors, and I kind of like the broken lines that resulted.
4×4″ acrylic
A little scrape over-painted with other acrylics, including making lines with the edge of the palette knife and the scraping the lines down. At first it reminded me of an octopus, but looking at it on the computer I saw more of a ghost (costume-y version), so instead of “octo-descent” it became “ghostly descent.”
4×4″ acrylic
This was a little scraped painting, but I brushed transparent (mostly) acrylic colors over the original paint. It’s “flag day” today. I’m not sure why that came to me as a title for this painting, but it did and it stuck.