Nathanial Hawthorne A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere –Frank Stella Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.– Michelangelo Moonlight is sculpture. -Nathanial Hawthorne. What a thrilling series of quotations!I've been working on a series of small, clay wall sculptures that I'm sure Hawthorne would disapprove of! It […]
River Nest FInal ”When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” River nest, almost but not quite. Henry J. Kaiser I'm hearing that voice loud and clear. I thought it was finished, but it kept calling to me, telling me that it needed more movement and interest in the lower left. Color differences in the […]
Painting on the patio in my pjs Ravens awake me here. They nest in the spruce above the house. All day long the young one calls to his parents reminding them he's there and hungry. Reminding me to be attentive to my work. Apparently the first bird that Noah released from the ark was a […]
Painting on the patio in my pjs Ravens awake me here. They nest in the spruce above the house. All day long the young one calls to his parents reminding them he's there and hungry. Reminding me to be attentive to my work. Apparently the first bird that Noah released from the ark was a […]
Marie, sitting in the patio watching me work. The days you work are the best days. Georgia O'Keeffe And working is what I have been doing. Painting in acrylic and watercolor, ink drawings, charcoal, and clay sculpture. Also a little plein air and cloudscape. How can you not respond to this astonishing landscape, so overwhelming […]
Marie, sitting in the patio watching me work. The days you work are the best days. Georgia O'Keeffe And working is what I have been doing. Painting in acrylic and watercolor, ink drawings, charcoal, and clay sculpture. Also a little plein air and cloudscape. How can you not respond to this astonishing landscape, so overwhelming […]
So very much has been consuming my energies for the last few weeks I have been sadly neglectful of this blog. A wonderful Kidz Aartz group spent a week with me making clay wind chimes & pins and acrylic paintings. A boy and his rat… Acrylic painting I've been working on the new website, which […]
Clay is about texture. Diva of the eclipse #4 One of the commisions. Have been watching my clay texture scraps while working on the sculpture commissions. They are all slightly different in expression and gesture. The feet are fun to do too. There is always a new quality to enjoy. Trying to look at things […]
Clay is about texture. Diva of the eclipse #4 One of the commisions. Have been watching my clay texture scraps while working on the sculpture commissions. They are all slightly different in expression and gesture. The feet are fun to do too. There is always a new quality to enjoy. Trying to look at things […]
Creating a Handcast Many hands I have been working SO INTENSELY on this project… An elaborate grant proposal that I almost got. I was one of three finalists in the state, but not the final one. Darn! What I pitched was an installation of tile, each one created from casts of the hands of townspeople. […]