Snap Apple, 3 x 6 Monotype
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After coating my zinc plate with black ink, I lifted the image of a girl playing a game of Snap Apple out of the pigment, by wiping the ink away with rolled paper towels and blending sticks.
Using fingertips to tap colored pigment into the areas I cleared of black ink.
Pulling the print, after a trip through the press.
The topic for Illustration Friday this week is: Snap
3/30/07
Monotype: Snap Apple
3/29/07
Reduction Woodcut & Watercolor
Avocado Pit Still Life 5 x 7 Woodcut & Watercolor
When I was a college student, I kept mementos on my desk, and sketched them like abstract journal entries. A thrift store lamp with a brass c-clef on the base was my reading light - my paternal grandparents were musicians. The rose colored glasses - a favorite item (and phrase) from my step mother's leftover 70's wardrobe, hung on the lamp. An African violet from a cutting my maternal grandmother gave me, sprouted purple flowers all winter. I found the sea shell on the beach in Santa Barbara, and used it to prop a photo of me with my siblings taken the same day. The mini cassette deck was used to record and listen to notes my step dad and I exchanged cross country. And I kept an avocado pit, sprouting in a glass - to see if a plant I associated with a chapter in my life in California, would grow in my home turf of snowy New England.
3/28/07
3/27/07
Trace Monotype & Watercolor
Hey, Wanna Split a Sandwich? 5 x 7 Trace Monotype & Watercolor
Available for sale here. (sold) 
The monotype, before painting it with watercolor.
3/26/07
Watercolor on Yupo: After Audrey
After Audrey, 4 x 4 Watercolor on Yupo paper
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First layers of pigment on the yupo - left to dry.
Lots more layers, drying in the final stages.
3/23/07
Watercolor: Roses and Dahlias in the Window
Roses and Dahlias in the Window 11 x 21 Watercolor (sold)
3/22/07
Monotype & Watercolor: Red Carpet Retirement
The Ghost-Print before I painted it, above.
Red Carpet Retirement 3 x 6 Monotype (Ghost) and Watercolor
Available for sale here. Sold
The April issue of American Art Collector will feature a quarter page ad announcing The Daily Painters Guild.
Check us out on page 48.
3/21/07
Watercolor: Birds on my Counter
Birds on my Counter, 5 x 4 Watercolor on paper
Available for sale here. (sold)
3/20/07
3/19/07
3/18/07
3/17/07
3/16/07
Watercolor: Plum Tomatoes
Is the cat counting tomatoes?
The hummingbird outside the window is attracted to red. The cat wants things that fly. And so it goes, 'round and 'round.
Plum Tomatoes, 10 x 11 Watercolor
(sold)
The topic for Illustration Friday this week is: Total
3/15/07
3/14/07
Watercolor: Mexican Folk Art on the Mantle
Mexican Folk Art on the Mantle, 7 x 11 watercolor on paper Mementos after a whirlwind trip to Mexico many years ago: a firetruck, and a teeny mariachi band in a cabinet, both made from painted clay.
(Sold)
3/13/07
3/12/07
Watercolor & Colored Pencil: Frog Hunting
My brothers used to climb into Grandpa's hip-waders and hunting shirts, and don his fly-fishing hats to hike down to the pond to catch frogs. Our family photo albums are dotted with poses by the pool; smiling boys, draped with frogs on heads, shoulders and hands. At dinner time, the boys came inside, and the newly named buddies hopped back down the hill towards the pond.
Frog Hunting, 8.5 x 8.5 Watercolor & Colored Pencil
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The topic for Illustration Friday this week is: GREEN
3/10/07
3/9/07
Monotype & Mixed Media: Social Skills
This is a monotype of AJC, pulled from a sheet of beveled plexi glass rolled with oil-based black Daniel Smith etching ink. I used Arches 88 paper for it's smooth surface, because I wanted to add colored pencil later.
Social Skills, 7 x 8 Monotype, Colored Pencil & Watercolor
3/8/07
Watercolor: Shoes on the Sill
My paternal grandparents had a beautiful collection of miniature porcelain, metal and wood shoes on their fireplace mantle. I was fascinated by them as a child, because they were pretty, but I had no idea where they came from.
Later, I learned that when my grandparents were newlyweds in 1928, my grandfather borrowed money from his new father in law to open a shoe store. Over the years, the whole family worked in the store on and off, where my grandmother was the ultimate jolly, warm italian sales lady. Family members gave her the tiny shoes as gifts, one by one, until she had a collection of them. By the time I was a teenager, the store was gone, and everyone had moved to different states. I didn't understand the significance of the shoes until both of my grandparents were gone.
I'm lucky to have a few of my grandmother's little shoes in my home. They remind me of early beginnings, and home-grown businesses and family history.
Shoes on the Sill, 10 x 17 Watercolor on paper
(Sold)
3/7/07
Watercolor: Origami Bistro
Origami Bistro, 6 x 8 Watercolor on paper
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Another restaurant in town, settled in a perfect spot for late afternoon sun painting scenes. They've changed their umbrellas to a light tan canvas now - the same color as most of the earth and stucco and block walls here in the high desert. I miss the red.
3/6/07
Watercolor: Patio Dining
There's a restaurant I frequent here in town that makes a mean salad. Most evenings, when the sun is low, their entrance is a study in shadow shapes and light. It's just one more reason to frequent the place.
Patio Dining, 7.5 x 10
3/5/07
Watercolor: Good Morning Sunshine
I sold my dining room set this weekend. We need more seating for our expanding dinners. The table has been a steadfast model for me, especially as the sun comes up, and drapes the surface in bright light. I can't resist the scene. Luckily, I have pages of reference photos and sketches still to be painted.
Good Morning Sunshine, 10 x 14 Watercolor
3/4/07
3/3/07
3/2/07
Watercolor: Winter Walk
Better now.
Winter Walk, 9 x 10 Watercolor on illustration board
Available here.
(Sold)
Lonesome pup...
Long road...
3/1/07
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