Spotlight North Studio Tour Preview Part 2 + New Spring Stationery

 Spotlight North Studio Tour Preview Part 2

As the studio tour approaches I am framing the last pieces, a task which always takes far longer than anticipated. It seems there is often something that could be revised, and before I know it it is 1 AM and I am blowing graphite dust off of plexiglass. Falling graphite easily becomes a fingerprint, which might be my new signature. Insert facepalm.

The 3 small egg drawings are all egg-sized, matted and framed in polished glass and clips ready to slip into an 8×10 frame. One has pre-sold, and I hope to have one more completed by end of week. My hope is that they are hung above the frying pan, just out of reach of splattering grease. . .

I have also framed three sequences created with washes of ink, graphite and colored chalk. These are miniatures, roughly 2×3″, matted with glass and backing to fit an 8×10 frame. I think of these as quiet conversations. They happen late at night, when images emerge from experiments in media, my new favorite being water soluble graphite. They have the scale and feel of etchings or lithographs, although they are one of a kind.

For the spring stationery launch, I am offering three new cards from  The Sweet Old World series, available in studio or from my shop. (Come to the studio, and avoid shipping!) These piece are created from watercolor and ink, layered with photography in a technique inspired by tintype, or wet-plate collodion. Golden Primrose, and Lily of the Valley are available as larger prints in my shop.

I will send out one last reminder a few days before the studio tour. During Spotlight North you can see the work of 12 artists in North Seattle, Shoreline and Lake Forest Park from noon to 5 May 16th and 17th.

If you are interested in any of the posted work give me a shout. Along with the new paintings and drawings I will be showing a set of prints, framed, from The Tarmac Residency. This set of photographic prints, one of which was included in Art and Flight at the Museum of Flight, started with a conversation with a stranger between Knoxville and Houston. You never know when the person sitting next to you will be your next muse.

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