Saturday, August 11, 2018

Orkney Islands summer 2018






Stones, Bones and Structures, It was hard to not be mesmerized by the harshness of the landscape.
Capturing the feeling of ancient,
Traveling is an exciting adventure,  working small in books with acrylic paint, ink and charcoal.
Happy to be home to familiar surroundings and appreciating the differences of place.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

The Eye of the Storm and all its Aftermath


Hanging the show Paper Tangents turned out beautifully.  The work to prepare the gallery and get the pieces hung level on the wall was 4 x more work than anticipated.  Curating the show was a whole new interesting challenge which I now realize takes knowledge and skill, both on a psychological level and a technical level.  We had a successful opening and lots of positive feedback.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Paper Tangents


Look its all been done before,
  but not by us,,,,,, or in this way''''''
3 women (2 potters and a midwife) with paper and pencil.  Started.
We started small moved forward with material,
bigger paper, different paper, see through paper,
We added color, and then encaustic, sumi ink, india ink, pens,
oil pastels, chalk pastels, charcoal, and then
there was no limit, whatever material we wanted we used to experiment.
This is not unlike what others do to make art, but it brought new concepts to us.

Every week we took half the time to critique, a learning process for all of us, 
(we found it really important to think about what we did and why we did it).
If you could defend it then it was finished.
No Judgement, no excuses, no-----.
Lots of discussion, about composition, value, form, line,
color, layering on, taking off, leaving space - taking space.
We used each others comments, we copied each other, 
we tried new concepts, and interestingly we each
came out being ourselves.
Our individual work is individually unique.

In the learning we each grew and then found and maintained who we are!

Paper Tangents
May 4-25 2018
Opening Friday 5/4/18  5-9
Art Food Wine Music
Art Gallery 606
606 Broadway SE
ABQ NM 87102

Thursday, March 15, 2018

2018 "Ideation Sketchbooks" Susquehanna Art Museum





4 Asemic sketchbook pages are heading to the SAM SusquehannaArtMuseum.org in Harrisburg Pennsylvania for their March 2018 "Ideation Sketchbook" Show.
Thank you to Kuzana Ogg for sending me the link to apply.