Silverpoint Drawing
3.5×5″ lavender prepared paper
This was drawn with a silver stylus on specially coated paper. It’s a Renaissance-era drawing medium known as Silverpoint. With time the silver lines tarnish to metallic sepia tone. The highlights are drawn in white charcoal.
Plenty more of these to see in The Art Fly archives, and on My Website.
The buyer will receive this drawing matted or framed, included in price!
Silverpoint Drawing
8×5″ blue-gray prepared paper
Ordinary things, like a feather and a pebble, have a quiet beauty; a worthy subject for a silverpoint drawing. Silverpoint is a Renaissance-era drawing medium whereby the artist draws with a stylus of silver metal on a specially prepared surface. Please view The Art Fly archives and My Website to see more of these drawings in various tones of color.
The dissimilar textures and shapes of these objects were pleasing to me. The highlight on the pebble was initially just a few straight lines of white chalk. But, that seemed cold and aloof from the feather, and in competition. Then I lightly sanded that area, as I typically do in my drawings. I drew in curved swirling white lines, which added interest and targeted the point of contact.
To the buyer: the drawing will arrive with a mat or frame and a silverpoint description card will be attached.
Oil Painting
8×10″ panel
The child in me loves this subject. I started this painting a few months ago, then put it aside. I returned to it and finally captured the mood I remembered. This field was somewhere near Bowman’s Tower in PA.
See November 8 archives for a smaller painting of the same subject, different vantage point, titled “To The Tower.”
Oil Painting
5×7″ bevel-edge panel
“Bounty” is my contribution to the Different Strokes From Different Folks (DSFDF) artist blog, where a photograph is posted bi-weekly and artists are encouraged to work creatively from that challenge. For this one, I decided to gesso the panel in black, which is not how I typically begin. From there, I really enjoyed the sensation of color coming up as if from the depths of darkness.
Oil Painting
4×6″ panel
Mother Nature nurtures. Here’s just a tiny parcel of what awaits us at Longwood Gardens. A riot of color and shapes that is ever-changing. A feast for the eyes and soul.
Oil Painting
6×6″ panel
This painting panel has finished beveled edges. The buyer will receive a tabletop easel with this purchase.
Photograph
Back from a week in beautiful Montana! Imagine the great Rockies as far as the eye could see, horses roaming acres of fields, eagles soaring, clear winding rivers, wind farms, prairie dogs, sapphire mines, First Peoples Buffalo Jump….which is where the photo was taken.
The literature from the First Peoples Buffalo Jump (Ulm Pishkun) State Park describes: For more than 1,000 years, prehistoric men and women of the Great Plains hunted bison by driving them over cliffs. Ulm Pishkun, is possibly the largest buffalo jump in the world, was used as a jump site between 900 and 1500 A.D. Below the cliffs that stretch more than a mile, the soil reveals compacted bison bones nearly 13 feet deep.
Consider this: “The buffalo was part of us, his flesh and blood being absorbed by us until it became our own flesh and blood. Our clothing, our tipis, everything we needed for life came from the buffalo’s body. It was hard to say where the animal ended and the man began.”
John Lame Deer (Sioux) 1972