
Fruits of My January Hibernation
I’ve been playing and exploring with watercolor lately, approaching these experiments with a strategy of simplicity. Continue reading Fruits of My January Hibernation
I’ve been playing and exploring with watercolor lately, approaching these experiments with a strategy of simplicity. Continue reading Fruits of My January Hibernation
Well, I’ve been putting this off for a few days but it’s time: I need to do a post about my latest 100-day-project and what it all means. Continue reading 100 Day Project 2020: Conclusions
My collages are created through a process of combining different media and ripped-up pages of marks. It then becomes a process of layering, adding, sometime subtracting, and re-configuring. I am trying to relate the paintings to this process, but instead of combining collage pieces, I am building up layers of marks, subtracting areas by covering them up and then adding more and more layers until I feel the image is resolved. Continue reading Getting Ready for my March Solo Show
Here we are in April and it already feels like June here in Germany. Only weeks ago we had a frigid cold snap and now we are looking at 80-90°F weather this week. Like most people, I am very tuned into the seasons, especially seeing them unfold outside of my studio window. For the past few weeks, my work has been reflecting the change. My … Continue reading Studio Update: Spring Explorations
Expanding My Mixed Media Repertoire I have never produced as much work and worked so consistently as I am now. I’m in some kind of flow and that means every piece I make informs the next. I think it was natural, then, to begin incorporating torn paper collage and paper cutting into the mixed media works I’m making. It started with this piece I created for the … Continue reading Everything But the Kitchen Sink…