Drypoint printmaking: To your Health
To your Health! 4.5 x 2.5 Drypoint with watercolor This drypoint is available in my Etsy Shop. After cutting a larger sheet of plexiglass for
To your Health! 4.5 x 2.5 Drypoint with watercolor This drypoint is available in my Etsy Shop. After cutting a larger sheet of plexiglass for
Island Hopping to Inspiration A few summers ago, my husband and I took a day trip on a boat all around three of the five
What is a Glue Collagraph Ghost Print? Plotting a Course is a glue collagraph ghost print. (The process shots begin at the bottom of this post) I’ve added
This art is available in my Etsy shop. I love the half-tone pattern (see below, before I painted it) of this style of monotype. Some
Santa Barbara Harbor Surfers 8.5×10.5 Monotype with watercolor and colored pencil Available in my Etsy shop. This loose, impressionistic monotype was painted and pulled during
Cat Nap 2.38 x 3.71 inch Intaglio Etching with Watercolor (Artist’s Proof) Cat Nap is available in my Etsy Shop.I went to San Francisco to
Books and Coffee 3.5×3.5 watercolor and ink on paper sold Available in my Etsy Shop.A gaggle of housemates have moved in – four legged and
Backyard Happy Hour 5.75×3.25 Watercolor on paper (sold) Cleaning the Art Studio Happy First week of the New Year! Are you making art plans
Epiphyllum 16 x 27 Watercolor on paper Sold Big, warm holiday greetings to you and those you love. Merry Christmas! I appreciate your comments and
Hold Your Hand 7×7 Collagraph with Colored Pencil Available in my Etsy Shop I’m binging on printmaking this month. Something about the sequence of steps;
The Beauty of Ghost Prints in Monotype This monotype ghost print (below) was very faint (below) compared to the bolder textures and contrast I got
Island Fox 7.25×5.25 inch Collagraph with watercolor &colored pencil on asian paper Available in my Etsy shop. This one is now Sold, but there’s another one here.
Making a Drypoint on Plexiglass or Acrylic Drypoint is a very old printmaking process, traditionally done on copper. Plexiglass (also called perspex, acrylic and lexan)
Growing up in rural Connecticut tinted me with a fondness for black capped chickadees. I’ve painted them often, and I’m thinking about doing this image
Inspired by Great Artists In a previous post about working in light, tonal values after looking at the work of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938). I really love his figurative
Available in my Etsy Shop (an open edition, with variation between each hand pulled print) See the process shots below…. If you’d like to see
Linocut Print with Watercolor and Colored Pencil I’ve had fun carving this linocut print, in fits and starts, wedged between other projects over this season.
Painting at the Train Station 6.5×10 watercolor on paper A few years ago, I went plein air painting with some pros here in Southern California.
Couch Napping 6.5 x 8.75 Collagraph with Watercolor Printing Collagraphs This collagraph was printed in an edition of 30. I painted #7 last night, pondering
Look what I found in my print files! Pulling the print after inking the block. Carving the block around the drawing Huntress 4×5 Linocut with
Available in my Etsy shop. This woodcut was carved and printed from a block of MDF, which is smooth to carve (compressed sawdust mixed with
Cats Who Model for Artists Here is a watercolor painting of a cat. This is Jack. He’s not my cat, but we see each other
Propagation 14 x 10 Watercolor Sold I snapped the reference photo for this watercolor while visiting one of my best friends in Massachusetts 30 years
Meandering Watercolor Artist I’m experimenting in the studio again. Meandering in the art supplies is fine if I have no upcoming shows or commissions. Enthusiasm
Meet me in the Garden 7.5×6 Graphite drawing sold This drawing is available in my Etsy Shop. My son gave me Ranier Metzger’s book on
Santa Monica Pier 6.5 x 4.5 Monotype with Watercolor Sold My family knows that I’m not much of an amusement park enthusiast. Sure, I go
Book Lover 4.5 x 6.5 Monotype with Colored Pencil Sold I’m almost all unpacked, and put away after the Thousand Oaks Artwalk last weekend. It
Sources of Inspiration for Watercolor Paintings Look Around the House at Your Books I have a garden book on Roses organized by “type, size, color
The Three of Us 6×9 Woodcut (triptych) with watercolor Etsy Shop. Family Photo Printmaking Projects If you’ve been reading this blog for a time, you
Library Cat 4×4 Aquatint w/ colored pencil SoldI framed this little guy to bring to the Sierra Madre Art Fair this weekend. (If you’re near