Garden Variety Art

A different kind of art this time... your garden variety art :) - very process and time based!  Just some views of my cottage, which is right outside my back door.  No traffic, just the burbling of the watergarden and the chatter of birds.

The photo digital intaglio diptych

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Tète-à-Tète (Left) - (c) 2013, 16x22", soapground aquatint etching over photogravure intaglio 

 

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Tète-à-Tète (Right), (c) 2013, 22x30", photogravure intaglio over soapground aquatint etching

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Tète-à-Tète (Left ) - detail 

(I love the eyelash showing through from the other side in the orbit)
-- see below for the diptych together

Two portraits and a print

 

Greg M Portrait - (c) 2013 - 30x22", graphite and watercolour wash on paper.  Part of the Reflections series.

Triple Self Portrait (c) 2013 - graphite and watercolour wash on paper., 30x22"  Part of the Reflections series.  We're always trying to stand outside ourselves a little bit, trying to keep an eye on ourselves, to see ourselves as others see us...

Head Up (c) 2013 - soapground and aquatint intaglio etching with spitbite, 9x12".

more new artwork

Blue #1 -(c) 2012 soapground aquatint etching, limited edition, 10x12"

Generations, for Terri, (c) 2012 - oil on canvas, 18x24"

Sing This Corrosion to Me (State 1), (c) 2012, aquatint etching, 12x18"

Sing This Corrosion to Me (State 2), (c) 2012, aquatint etching with spitbite, 12x18"

Sing This Corrosion to Me (State 3), (c) 2012, aquatint etching with open biting, 12x18"

Stay tuned for more ... a self-portrait series in progress, State 4 of Corrosion, and Blue #2

Two snippets from Jack Darling park today:  a mellow Abby, turning back and smiling, and for more bounce-to-the-ounce, a Frisbee catch by Milo, joined by Bronte for a victory lap.

Here is some footage of Milo catching frisbee... and then going for a long drink.

More recent art - from this past year

Blur, aquatint etching, 2012

 Blur, top, middle, and bottom portions

If I Knew Then (State 1), 2012, Aquatint etching, approx. 40 x 30

What I Know Know (State 2), 2012, Aquatint etching, approx. 40 x 30.  Made by reworking the state 1 "If I knew then"

Middle Years/Medium Rare, 2012, watercolour wash and graphite, approx. 24 x 40"

Through a Thin Frost (outer layer), 2011, aquatint etching on sheer drapery fabric, laid over the rag paper version (below).  This top layer lays over top of the paper layer like a drape and is meant to be lifted; the idea is for a double image, of lifting a veil and seeing another side of the image.

Through a Thin Frost (bottom layer), 2011.  The title comes from Robert Frost's poem "An Old Man's Winter Night"

Two for One, 2012, watercolour wash and graphite with white china pencil resist, approx. 24 x 42".

Unspoken Warning / Is a memory of a memory just a memory? 2012, watercolour wash and mixed media.  I remember this photo, and thinking my mom looked like she's trying to warn me about something - but what?  Having no memory of the event, I have only the memory of the photo and the memory of what it meant years later...

Older art...

Darlene's Dad

Glimpse of a Heron

The Honey of thy Breath (state 1), hardground etching

Jazz Jam

Joy as a Young Lady

Lovin' the Blues

Marz

Milkweed

the late Mrs. French

Sorting Eggs (for Grandma, 2009, age 100)

Play, featuring Reilly and Abby.  It was love at first sight.  RIP Reilly.

Rain

Reeds

Selfportrait with Negative Space, 2007 (graphite)

Sleepy Eye

Not Again (tension portrait)

the Girls of Winter, featuring Abby and Bronte

What Happens, 2-plate etching

Will You Remember Me?

Winter's Autumn Joy (sedum)

Youth

Brie and Grapes

The farm

Rant

Running Out

Aaron

Bronte as a puppy

Age of Fire (with apologies to Rodin :)

Bette in Fur

Breakfast Table