Happy Holidays
Wishing you healthy and happy holidays this year. I’m continuing to work on small fabric collages, but progress is slow. I took a break and made a new design of…
Pink and Yellow, Part 2
Last week I selected pink and yellow collage papers inspired by flowers from my garden. Since this color scheme is lighter than my usual choices, I experimented with some compositional…
Video Learning
As I mentioned in several recent posts, I'm learning how to make stencils in an online class taught by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. http://balzerdesigns.com/Classroom/ I had several questions from readers about…
Stencils, Week 3
This week I’ve continued practicing making stencils with CanvasWorkspace. This design was inspired by Moroccan tiles. I used the basic shapes in the software such as squares and circles to…
Learning about Stencils
This week, I’m making stencils to use in printing on the gelli plate. I made three drawings for the light, middle, and dark values and cut them with a cutting…
Leaves
As we move into September in South Carolina, the weather still feels like summer. But the leaves are showing bits of yellow ochre that hint at the coming of fall.
Weedy Garden
As summer heat drags on and days grow shorter, chlorophyl decreases. Warm tones of olive and avocado forecast the coming of autumn. For this piece, I printed ferns and…
Varnishing Day
In recent weeks I have finished a batch of ten new pieces and let them dry thoroughly. Now it’s time to varnish them. Because my work is a combination of…
Immersed in Green
As I observed two weeks ago, the South Carolina gardenscape is GREEN. The view from my studio at the back of my home has glimpses of a sunny golf course…
UNEXPECTED COMBINATION
My studio is cluttered with stacks of prints on the floor and on my inspiration board. I have a stack of old paintings that I want to recycle. Through my…