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. [Read more…]