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Nihonga Day 11

Today

I sized the inside of a book cover

to prep the surface for working on it later!

And spent some time working on these 3 panels:

adding mica,

and burnt umber,

then spraying water on top to get more texture.

There are plenty of more layers to put down on these pieces, but for the rest of the afternoon I worked [...]

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Nihonga day 4

Mako demonstrating sumi ink

getting my batches ready

sumi-ink, sprayed with some water

I thought I’d try my hand at some more unusual sources of pigment.  So today’s experiment: blueberries!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the studio…

Jess began experimenting with water and sumi-ink dropped onto her conte drawing.

Then I heard a giggle and a “whoa!”   [Jess had [...]

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residency day 6

Today was a full day – filled with teaching and sharing about encaustics among new friends.  Boy, did we have fun!

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before and after

Do you ever feel like a piece of art you make just doesn’t “feel right” after you’ve made it?  A few pieces in this By Its Cover series have felt incomplete or just plain wrong, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why until a few weeks ago….
Below are the before and after shots [...]

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in the studio today

I went back at it today to wrap up this piece by adding a dried hydrangea and a few extra layers of wax.   (The images aren’t the best, so I’ll take more later, but I wanted to get these up right away!)  Here’s the result of “By Its Cover” #4:

And I managed to crank [...]

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in the studio today

For the last two days, I’ve been fighting a cold.  It’s the first time since coming to Vancouver that I’ve gotten a cold– I blame it on the weather going from see-my-own-breath cold to I-can-wear-flip-flops warm.
Regardless, I knew if I wanted to make the most of my break from classes, I had better get in [...]

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in the studio today

This is new piece I worked on all day today in the studio.  I attempted to create a pseudo-landscape by using book covers and threaded spines as the land, and a dried hydrangea (resembling a tree) growing out from it.
While I’m content with this piece for now, I hope to push this concept further in [...]

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in the studio today

I spent a couple of hours in the studio today messing around and having good conversations with my materials.  A large part of art-making, I’ve come to conclude, is dialoguing with the “stuff” to see what works and what doesn’t.  Sometimes the materials push back, and sometimes they do exactly as they’re told.  :)
Old books [...]