Graphite, ink, solvent-based marker, watercolor and gouache on 5" x 7" wood panel (salvaged from a broken dresser drawer). Drawing on wood has some wonderful advantages; not the least which is the ability to remove everything- or almost everything; to scale it back with sandpaper and begin afresh, with just the ghost of the initial… Continue reading portrait on wood panel
Tarlatan draws a night of dancing aurora for the snow house. Yesterday I spent about seven hours in the Gowanus Studio Space, in the print shop. It was the first time I've had the pleasure of working there, and my day was focused on pulling prints from two drypoint engravings on the etching press. Following… Continue reading Dry point printing
A sneak peek at the plexiglas plate. The black paper underneath makes the etches more visible. Sneak peek at a section of my digital 'proof'– wherein I scanned the plate and inversed black and white to get an idea of the density when inked. I see that I have more work to do in the… Continue reading sneaky peeks (drypoint in progress)
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Here are some sketchbook drawings from August I'd forgotten about. Sort of in thinking about the card deck, but obviously went off on some tangents here. Click to see the larger images. I cannot believe it's October already. Cold today. In other news: I will be selling jewelry and art at Brooklyn Craft Central’s 3rd… Continue reading some watercolor sketches
Tired. (still on GMT.) Very smooth traveling, though-- actually a pleasant plane trip and only seven hours to get back. Here's another drawing, for now, from the trip book. It's of part of the vast and winding interior of The Sheep Heid Inn in Duddingston, Edinburgh (we did not play skittles, alas) on the far… Continue reading Home from abroad
Amsterdam; the Westerkirk in the background. Edinburgh; Dean Village along the Water of Leith Well I thought I might have been better about adding things here whilst traveling, as I brought my laptop, but no, not really. The days are getting short though, and thoughts of the work waiting at home are beginning to creep… Continue reading travels
Used the photobooth on my macbook to get these rather grainy images from my sketchbook. It's not much, but until I get a proper USB for the camera, it's all I've got! the buildings out back of where we're staying interior of a restaurant in Noord called Pollux; it's in a big old wooden boat.
Jon is writing code for the moon (for a project we are both working on). Here is what just came through my instant messaging window, regarding treatment of a series of my pencil-drawn moon-phases: "I just wrote this code: function lunarprogression() { for (i = 1; i < cycles; i++) { if (i == moooooon)… Continue reading m o o n .
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