“Early Autumn”

Oil Painting
8×6″ panel

These are the colors of Early Autumn in my own back yard - an impression.

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“Broken Shell”

Silverpoint Drawing
7.5×5.5″ green-gray prepared paper

Here’s another “interior” piece that I drew a while back. This shell is one of my favorite things, a beautiful natural sculpture. While drawing this I thought of the curving walls of the shell, stretching across the missing parts. Tones in a silverpoint drawing are made up of layers of lines. I’ve been doing silverpoint drawings since the mid-’80s and I’m still searching for lines that best express the thing before me - and I suppose that’s how it will continue to go.

To learn more about this Renaissance-era drawing medium, please go to My Website or see others in The Art Fly archives.

Please email me if you are interested in this silverpoint for $175. (mat included) + $6. shipping.

“Inside Out”

Silverpoint Drawing
5×4.5″ blue-gray prepared paper

This seashell was drawn with a silver stylus on specially coated paper, a Renaissance-era medium known as Silverpoint. Layers upon layers of lines become tones, and over time the silver gradually tarnishes to a metallic sepia. The drawing is heightened in white ink.

See more silverpoints in The Art Fly archives, and on My Website. Please email me to purchase this.

“It is Written”

Acrylic Painting
6×9″ panel

Back in business after a week of blog problems! And I’m back to one of my favorite subjects - rocks. I used acrylic paint for this. Its rapid dry time allows me to use many layers of paint glazes on the rocks.

The things I’ve collected are scattered around my studio/house; beach stones, feathers, seed pods, shells, bones - and it always surprises me how they come together. It’s as if I’m seeing them for the first time. No matter how busy I am or what I’m in the middle of doing, one or more of these things will stop me in my tracks as I pass by. I wonder about these quiet awakenings but try not to analyze them too much. I love the calligraphy on this group of black stones…and the “quill” resting near by seemed right..

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“Shaker”

Silverpoint Drawing
4.5×6.5″ blue-gray prepared paper

Lately, I’ve been focused on working in wood, putting most of my energy behind some ideas I’m trying out in that medium…must get it while it’s hot. Every year the New Hope Arts Center (PA) holds a national juried “Works in Wood” exhibition. Following up from some previous blog posts, the wood-mosaic work I submitted has been selected for this upcoming show. For those who love wood this is the show! Very diverse offerings: unusual tables, chairs, cabinets, lamps, musical instruments, carvings, turned vessels, wood mosaic mirror frames.…The Opening Night is Saturday, November 14 - always a big and exciting event! Photos of that to come…

After periods of intense creativity I like to unwind by drawing in silverpoint, which is such a meditative medium, one that I’ve been using since the mid ’80s. A silver stylus (wire) is drawn over a lightly textured surface that gently abrades the silver, leaving metal lines. I prepare a color-toned surface and then add highlights in white chalk or white ink. The initial silver lines are gray, like pencil lines, but with time will warm up to a sepia tone - like tarnished silver.

An object could be interpreted in so many ways; this sculptural shaker caught my eye. The vase-like body of it fitting into the ring…all the individual parts analyzed while I drew. Yet, another interpretation would skip the analysis and be simply tonal, or shapely…

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