San Fernando Road 6x9 Watercolor on paper
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10/30/07
10/29/07
Etching & Watercolor: Sure Temptation
Sure Temptation, 6 x 9 Etching & Watercolor
This piece was the result of a print-exchange with 12 fellow printmakers. We clipped los angeles yellow pages headers, and tossed them into a box. Each artist pulled a slip from the box, and created a print inspired by their selection; I pulled Sure Temptation. I hadn't pondered Eve's story too deeply before that print exchange, but after researching the details, I could imagine Eve, with innocent demeanor, and naive carriage, in the seconds before her first exchange with the serpent.
This etching & watercolor is available for sale here.
The yellow pages header, and rough sketches & ideas.
Transferring the first parts of the drawing on the plate, through the ground, to prepare for the acid.
10/28/07
India Ink & Pastel: Rieke's Chair
Rieke's Chair, 9 x 16 India Ink and Pastel on Canson Paper
Private Collection
10/27/07
Dry Point & Watercolor: Gush
Gush 2.25 x 3.5 Dry Point Engraving on BFK Pives paper, painted with Watercolor
Available here.
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Writing a love letter. Gushing through the pen. 
Using a twisted scribe to engrave the image into copper.
First proof print; very soft lines. I'll be playing with it more later in the week, but I like the wispy look of these prints.
10/25/07
Dry Point & Watercolor: Asleep in Rome
Asleep in Rome 4.75x4.75 Dry Point with Watercolor
Drypoint on plexiglass is a nice alternative if you don't have buckets of acid laying around to etch metal plates. Draw your image directly on the plexi, and use a whistler's needle - or twisted scribe - to cross hatch toothy, ink-holding textures where you want darks. Every line you scrape is a trench to hold a little bit of ink.
I've cross hatched on top of the cross hatch to ensure that enough pigment will adhere to the areas where I want darkest darks. Dry Point prints a softer line than an etching, so I've found that you really have to dig - and do so at an angle - to kick up a bur in the plexi. It will give more of a curb for the ink to hold on to.
Laying brown etching ink on the plate with a bondo scraper. Each ink application, and each trip through the press squashes the tooth of the line work flat, so it holds less and less ink, and prints really light after a handful of impressions. Dry points are usually printed in smaller editions than etchings as a result.
I could already see after wiping the plate that I had to do more line work & cross hatching to hold enough ink to get the darks I wanted.
Pulling a test proof to use as a reference for more work on the plate. This proof was painted later with watercolors (at the top of this post), and I finally got darker darks after subsequent cross hatching (image below).
10/24/07
Intaglio Etching & Watercolor: Listening
Listening 2.75 x 3.5 Intaglio Etching [Artists' Proof] with Watercolor
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Beveling a zinc plate to make an etching.
Drawing through a waxy ground on the plate, and taping the bevels in preparation for an acid bath. 
Inking the etched plate to push pigment into the tiny holes etched by the acid. This is followed by wiping the top surface clean, and leaving ink embedded in the tiny etched wells.
After going through the press, pulling the artists' proof. This is a test image; the plate will be coated with ground again, and the process continues in this cycle until the art is finished and ready for printing an edtion.
The proof, before I painted it with watercolors.
10/23/07
10/22/07
10/15/07
Monotype & Watercolor: Persimmon & Vintage Whiskey Bottles
Persimmon & Vintage Whiskey Bottles 4.5 x 6.5 Monotype Ghost with Watercolor
Available for sale here.
10/12/07
Dry Point & Watercolor: Just Feel the Sun
Just Feel the Sun 4x6 Dry Point Engraving with Watercolor [Artists' Proof]
Available for Sale here.
Drawing the image on a plexi plate with marker.
After scratching some of the image into the plexi, I've pushed ink into the grooves, and wiped the top surface of the plate clean to pull an artists' proof (a test image).
Pulling the print after a trip under the press.
10/11/07
Monotype & Watercolor: Movie Night
Movie Night 4.5 x 6.5 Monotype Ghost with watercolor
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This is a ghost print from a monotype I did last Fall (Cat Hammock, sold). I painted the ghost with watercolors yesterday while spending time with an artist friend undergoing & recovering from hand surgery. (Heal fast & paint, NE.)
10/9/07
Watercolor: Frida with a Tree of Crows
Frida with a Tree of Crows, 2.5 x 3.5 Watercolor on paper
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10/8/07
10/6/07
Monotype: Villa Steps
Villa Steps 4 x 6 Monotype & watercolor
This former residence, an Italian/Spanish Villa built in the 1920's, is now a girls' school in Sierra Madre, CA. The administrators are kind enough to allow artists to paint & sketch on site during weekends, as long as the wedding and film/tv production schedule allows.
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10/5/07
Monotype: Troubadour
Troubadour 4 x 4 Monotype with watercolor
For sale here.
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When my grandfather Alphonse was 18, he played in a band with his brother Freddie. On the way to their gigs, he'd stop by my grandmother Margie's house and play love songs for her on the front porch of her aunt's house. They'll celebrate their 72nd anniversary in January.
10/3/07
10/2/07
Watercolor: Good Day for Kites
Good Day for Kites 5 x 8 Watercolor
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View of the Coronado Bridge in San Diego on a windy Sunday in June.
10/1/07
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