More Iceland Progress

I'm back!

Been away for the past four months travelling up the west coast and then spent most of the summer in NYC with a side trip to Norway and Iceland. All super amazing and inspiring.  Here are the beginnings of a few glacier paintings.

A few paintings

After open studios, I took a few days off to go up to Mt. Tam before the green grasses turned brown for the summer, and that trip inspired a few small paintings. The top painting is just finished and comes from my first visit to Lava Beds National Monument. We just went again a few weeks ago, so there will be several more rock paintings.

Spring Open Studios!

Please join me this weekend for Spring Open Studios in the Mission!

1890 Bryant (btwn 17th and Mariposa), Studio 212
Friday, April 19 6-9PM
Saturday, April 20 noon-6PM
Sunday, April 21 noon-6PM

Hope to see you there!

Oil on paper

These sketches are oil on Arches oil paper, something I've recently discovered and love. The paper is treated so that it does not need priming for oils. Yay! It's the best qualities of watercolor and oil combined.

Trace monotype

Today was the conclusion of the trace monotype workshop with printmaker Jenny Robinson. It was a wonderful class full of experimentation and beautiful work. It's always so fun to see the ways other artists tackle a new medium, and the results were amazing!

This process involves rolling ink onto a plate, covering that plate with Japanese printmaking paper, and covering that with a piece of trace paper onto which a drawing is made. The Japanese paper picks up ink from the plate when marks are made on the trace. The resulting print looks like a hazy, fuzzy drawing, onto which you can add layer of color or more drawing (see the top two images). The plate can also be printed to make a negative of the trace (the bottom five images). The process depends quite a bit on the original drawing, and results are fairly immediate. In fact, you don't even need a press to make the first image.  But I love how the negatives look and am excited to play some more with them.

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Sometimes I win. Sometimes the painting wins. The most interesting things happen, though, when we're evenly matched.

Preview

Today I took a Trace Monotype workshop with the talented and generous Jenny Robinson.  It was fun, exciting, and inspiring, and I can't wait for part two next week!  Here is a little preview of one small part of the process.  I'll post the final results next week.

More new work

This is what happens when I procrastinate on posting...the work piles up. Many of these are still in process, and sizes vary from 16"x20" to 42"x60". Apologies for the glare in some of the shots.

At long last a new post!

Here's some of what I've been up to lately. Pthalo blue takes over everything in the studio! This painting is approximately 42"x60".  Anyone who's spent time in San Francisco will recognize the ominous bank of fog rolling in.

In Process

Still lots to do on both of these paintings.  The house is approximately 34"x56". The landscape is a view from the road through the Alabama Hills to Mt. Whitney.  It's 42"x60". I'm having fun/going crazy painting the sagebrush.  

Experiments, studies, sketches, and general craziness

Many thanks to those of you who made it to open studios. It's always so great to meet new people and get feedback on my work. After all the craziness of finishing the paintings, cleaning the studio, and opening it to the public, I am ready for a vacation, though.  I usually take a day or two off and then give myself a week to just play with paint.  Above, you can see the results of this week's play (plus an earlier experiment - the rocks).

Fall Open Studios

Please join me this weekend for Fall Open Studios in the Mission. I'll have lots of new paintings, prints, and experiments on view alongside Jon McNeal's excellent photography, and the building is full of other super talented artists. Details below. Hope to see you there.

1890 Bryant (btwn. 17th and Mariposa), Studio 212
Friday, October 26 6-9PM
Saturday, October 27 11AM-6PM
Sunday, October 28 11AM-6PM