Published January 15th, 2010
Silverpoint Drawing
7×5″ gray-green prepared paper
When I began to work in silverpoint, way back in the ’80s, I selected familiar portraits from the Renaissance period and practiced my technique by copying them. (Silverpoint is a Renaissance-era drawing medium that predates the pencil. A silver wire is inserted in a wooden or metal holder and used as a drawing instrument. The silver lines will gradually tarnish to a warm sepia tone.) I still enjoy the practice of copying from the masters and drawing from my large collection of shells, skulls and many natural objects.
While drawing from DaVinci’s painting of Mona Lisa I saw that there are many “lifts” in the face: along the eyes, forehead, corners of the mouth, cheeks. The more you look, the more you see. Each time I draw this face, the seeing goes a little deeper.
I prepared the paper with a pale gray-green tone and used white charcoal for highlights. To learn more about silverpoint please visit My Website.
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Published January 1st, 2010
Oil Painting
8×6″ art panel
This portrait is my contribution to the Different Strokes From Different Folks annual portrait swap.
Every 2-3 weeks artist Karin Jurick posts a photo on the DSFDF blog. The whole point is to use the photo for reference only, and let your creativity run free.
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Published December 29th, 2009
Oil Painting
4.25×4.25″ bevel-edge panel
I saw my first magpie in Montana this past Spring. Eye-catching black and white magpies (with a touch of deep blue) were easily spotted amidst all that scenic greenery.
Sorry, this one’s not for sale - please ask about others.
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Published December 21st, 2009
Oil Painting
7×5″” art panel
Season’s Greetings, everyone! Yay, we’re having a snowy Christmas week!
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Published December 14th, 2009
Silverpoint Drawing
5×7″ lavender-gray prepared paper
To work in silverpoint is to meditate. It takes patience, and layers and layers of lines. I enjoy unwinding with this Renaissance-era drawing medium which is simply a silver wire inserted in a holder that is drawn across a slightly abrasive surface, leaving lines of silver.
The egg shaped stone with its oval bands matched the contour of the egg. I started in on the drawing, relating the two forms and forgetting about all else… I used white charcoal to highlight the finished drawing.
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Published December 8th, 2009
Wood Mosaic (mirror frame)
29×29″ poplar, cherry, mahogany, walnut
Every year New Hope, PA has a national juried Works in Wood exhibition at the Arts Center. “Currents” is one of two Fine Art Mirror Frames that I submitted; both were accepted. Read about it here.
This is the fifth year of Works in Wood and I’m happy to have exhibited my wood mosaics in all of those shows. To see those works, please visit My Website.
To see more details of this mosaic, please see The Art Fly archives of Sept. 22 and Oct. 8.
Please contact the New Hope Arts Center if you are interested in this work. The 16″ x 16″ mirror is included, but not shown here.
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Published November 30th, 2009
Oil Painting
8×6″ panel
These are the colors of Early Autumn in my own back yard - an impression.
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Published November 26th, 2009
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.
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Published November 25th, 2009
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.
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Published November 20th, 2009
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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