Autumn, like Spring, is adventure time. Wander time. I’ve been filling up on these. You decide an initial direction or destination, from there you follow your feet, or state of mind. You flow. Chasing miles. Chasing the magic hour. Moonrise. It's nice to chase it all in my own city; the deepening blue, jeweled with lights of infrastructure and the… Continue reading A philosophical pedestrianism
Summer’s second bookend, this weekend. Labor Day is past. But the mercury’s back up, and New York City has ‘extended beach season*’. Here’s something that seems to happen regularly in my business practice. Work gets a little slow after a period of hustle, so I decide to use the time productively / proactively for the… Continue reading Anticipating a shift
It's been awhile since I posted. I haven't been drawing much lately— partly on account of work things and partly on account of the weather being too lovely to not be outside walking, cycling, or sitting in the park with friends. These little vignettes are beginnings for a larger work that I'm illustrating for a client.… Continue reading City people in watercolor
Some of the sketches from Sunday's wander day revisited with watercolor and paper collage. More pages after the jump>> On the two above (though it's really hard to see), I played with using a bit of paper lace as a mask– painted in the negative spaces with acrylic glaze, let dry, then painted over it with the watercolor.… Continue reading Sketchbook and watercolor : reacquaint
Writing is one of the best ways to sort real emotions from troublesome nonsense. I first experienced this via The Artist’s Way, and what the author calls Morning Pages. After a few weeks, your notebook is transformed— it's a spiral-bound bullshit detector; a college-ruled catharsis.
Last night in class I decided to work on another soft ground etching. After pulling the proofs last week, I realized this medium is exactly what I was looking for in 2010 when working on all those pencil drawings, and wanting a way to create multiples of them (not giclée). This is perfect, as it… Continue reading Another soft ground etching started- stunted.
the copper plate, in process of being scribed (hard ground applied) digital proof made by scanning, inversing and adjusting contrast of copper plate An eight hour day in the home studio, spent scribing the hard ground. Below are more scans in-progress; this is how I get an idea of what the line work I've done… Continue reading New line etching in progress
Proofs of the two portraits, line-etched only. (Lady looks to have a mustache– must burnish those lines down!) Yes, you read that correctly: spit-bite. Contrary to what Wiki says, we are learning the old-school method, so it is what it sounds like– a way of "biting" the plate with acid that involves actual salivary effluvium–… Continue reading Line etching with spit-bite
first proof after aquatint process. 5.5" x 3.5" In the studio yesterday, I worked simultaneously on two plates, which may not have been the best idea. Above is the proof of my first aquatint. Overall fairly successful, although (because I was dividing my time and thoughts) I failed to pay proper attention to etching times… Continue reading Etching: new proofs
click to see larger image I spent about half the day in the studio yesterday on this; not very exciting, but a handy tool for deciding how long to etch my plates in future. (It measures approx. 10" x 1"... details after the jump) Once the plate was coated with hard ground wax, I made… Continue reading Etching studio: acid bath test
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