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Still drawing… Generally, if I am not blogging it is because I am fully engaged with my studio work and not stepping back to process and reflect. It is a good place to be creatively, but in the virtual world, it looks like I have dropped off the planet. In fact, I think my feedburner [...] I have several drawings underway in the studio right now and I will post images of those next week. In the meantime, the newest Strange Tale… Graphite on Moleskine sketchbook paper, about 8.25 x 10.5 inches: Upon reflection, Colleen realized that she preferred to be only loosely moored to reality; her dreams were far more [...] The large drawing is finally finished: Home Graphite pencil, India ink, cross-stitched embroidery thread, glass beads, black paper, color pencil on Arches hot press watercolor paper 4 x 6 feet / 44 x 64 inches / 112 x 154 cm Detail pictures are on my flickr photostream. I will write a statement about this [...] Just finished: “Fourteen (mixing memory and desire)” graphite, watercolor, gold leaf, peridot and garnet beads on Arches hot press watercolor paper 16 x 16 inches Fourteen (mixing memory and desire) plus a detail of the inner drawing: detail of inner drawing; opening is 1.5 by 1 inch [...] This week’s installment of the Moleskine sketchbook drawing in pencil, about 8 x 11 inches (I do need to measure these): The Weight of the Carapace I am thinking about framing these folded-page sketches with stitching/string in place just like they seen are in the sketchbook. Perhaps stitching them to a piece of Arches and [...] The full drawing and detail images of “At the very bottom of her box, there lay hope” [...] This Little Empress Has Built Her House of Cards Upon A Quagmire graphite on paper image: 36 x 21 inches frame: 50 x 36 inches Occasionally, I will hear a short phrase or read a fragment of text that compels a deeply visceral response that in turn prompts visual imagery. The drawing This Little [...] I am the Consumer graphite, cross-stitched embroidery thread, and Swarovski crystals on Arches paper image : 48 x 26 inches frame: 60 x 40 inches I use self-portraits in the same manner that an actor uses a role; although the self-portrait may be as a character in a fantasized narrative, there is always a [...]
The Daughters of Lucy (lost, abandoned, and torn asunder) These are old posts about the “evolution” of the Lucy drawing… Serendipity I: The Genographic Project My husband often accuses me of being psychic. I do have a particularly strong intuitiveness, but I think of it more like divining to find water: when [...] Alter Graphite, gouache, 23K gold leaf, and blood on Arches paper 46 x 26 inches
Alter is a drawing that deals with the impact of environment on genetics.
There is a duality to this piece. On one hand there is [...] |
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