To Jettison Without Solutions, Not To Wise

Another alcohol Ink on Yupo with intense drawing with quill pen and Colored Inks.
If we don't solve our problems here on earth, jettisoning them into space will only multiply our problems.  Thanks for the view.  

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Connections

This piece is a little bit different,  it is not a Collage.  Using contact paper and Alcohol Inks in several different layers of application, I built up the composition.  Then with my favorite Quill pen and colored inks I began to draw on the multi surface.

Size   H 14" x W 11"
Medium    Quill pen and colored inks, Alcohol inks, Yupo paper

Invitation to the Creative Arts Center of Dallas 2015 Show

Very Happy to be in the Show.  If you are in Dallas or going to Dallas, hope you have time to see the show.

hunter/gatherer/industrial/digital/hunter/gatherer...

This piece began from an experiment.  Walnut ink spray, round plastic needle point canvas, cut into part circles.  I laid the cut plastic circles on pieces of torn artist's proofs of intaglio prints I made in college, and spayed.  The circles, part circles, reminded me of cave drawing symbols.  The color scheme of the eucalyptus, sienna, java, and walnut, seemed to add to that feeling.  

Size  H 12" x W 9"    Medium  Collage, quill and Ink, walnut inks, intaglio proofs, various papers

 

 

 

Warning, Just a few Spots Left

I finally finished my new piece, with the 9 small collages that I posted before. 
As we kill off more and more land, the spots of natural beauty will become fewer and fewer.

Size  H 21" x W 28"
Mediums   Quill pen and ink, Inktense, Fluid Acrylics, Various papers

False words, While the beauty slips away

Size  H 8" x 6"
Medium   Quill pen and ink, inktense, book pages, various papers.

In keeping with the always theme in my work of our stewardship, or lack, of the earth we live on, this is a statement of the horrible slow death we are causing the plants around us, due to chemical profits.
The very soil we depend on is dying, and the beauty of rare and common plants is floating out of our grasp.  In this specific piece, an exotic plant is broken up into circles, and floating away from us, as the soil is dying, and the sky darkens with foreboding.

I have two pieces that have been juried into the SLMM online National Show.  The show is up for view, at slmm.org   The title of the exhibit is "Ebb and Flow"    

Thanks for the view.

All That Remains (In Progress)

Continuing with small work, I created 9 small landscapes, each 3" x 3".  They will each be placed on a crumpled piece of paper that looks like a cross between seal gut and parchment with string reinforcement running through it at 1 inch intervals.  Then all 9 will be mounted again on a single background.  As the finished piece will be to large to scan here at my studio, I am showing only the bits and pieces now,  after the piece is finished and camera shot, I will show you the finished piece.
Thanks for the view. 

Smaller Than It Used to Be

This piece, still working small, is a little bit different.  I created a diptych, which means two pieces, on one background.  Each Piece is H 3" x W 7".

Size   H 8" x W 9"

Medium     Collage      Quill Pen and Ink, Flow Acrylics, Various Papers, including old map reprint

As always, like to hear from you.  My website, with a new page added for small work, can be reached by clicking the link at the top right of this page. 

In The Light of Day

Size   H 10" x W 6"   Collage   molding paste, quill and ink, Fluid Acrylics, various papers


I have added a new page to my website, for Small Work.  If you would like to view them all as well as my larger pieces,  the link is at the top right of the opening blog page. 

Haunted by the Past

Wanted to post some of my new pieces, There are 4 new pieces added. My scanner is finally working again!  New, as in recently finished, but all so new, as in my work is changing, evolving, which is how it should happen. 

I am working on a smaller scale, still collage, but drawing on the collage itself, or using odd bits of drawings. The work is more spontaneous.  It begins with a ground of Molding Paste to create a Multi textured layer to build upon.

More news, Falling Together, which was in the Arizona show sold.  Very happy about that.

  Thanks for viewing.

A New World Order

2nd of my new work

Size   H 4" x 11"     Collage    Fluid Acrylics, Molding Paste, Various Papers

Spinning Thru the Universe

3rd New small work

  Size   10" x 6"    Ink,  Fluid Acrylics, Various papers

A New World Coming

4th of my new work.  

H 6" x 8"     Medium    Collage,   Ink, Alcohol Inks, Various Papers

They Will Thrive Without Us

Collage    Pen and ink renderings, inktense, etching proofs from my college days, various papers.    10 x 13 unframed  

Even In The Deep, The Changes We Have Caused

This is a combination piece, using several Yupo papers created with flow acrylics, and quill pen drawings with water color pencil.  The pods are block prints on Yupo, the inside shapes have been cut out and quill pen drawings with watercolor pencil fill the spaces.
Collage
size  11' x 14''  
mediums    Yupo paper, flow acrylics, quill and ink drawings, watercolor pencil, block printing

New Show

As We Change Them,So Are We Changed and Falling Together, Shown Below, were both accepted into the National Juried Show, Arizona Aqueous XXIX.  They will hang at the Tubac Center of the Arts Starting January 23rd, 2015.

 As We Change Them, So Shall We Be Changed

Falling Together
My Complete work can be seen on my website, the link is at the upper right on this page.
Thanks for the view.