From the Suspension Series (scrim)
pigment-based ink on silk, mylar, wax, found wood
2010/11 appr. 16 x 16"
After being away from wax for a couple of years and working in oil, I've spent the past few months easing my way back. Having also spent a considerable period of time working on digital photo-based images, as well as creating a large body of work of oil on mulberry paper, I wasn't ready to walk away from paper just yet.
I gave myself some freedom to experiment with numerous materials I hadn't used with wax before: pigment-based ink on silk, Duralar (mylar), corrugated translucent plastic, and double mulberry paper, encaustic medium and paint; pigment stick, powdered pigment, mica, and other powdered materials, graphite, and found wood.
In all cases, I was after light...capturing it, directing it, allowing it. This does not translate much in these photos, but is very apparent in person. Something to work on--how to photograph the work to more accurately show the play of light through the wax and other translucent and semi-transparent materials.
Most remain untitled, for the moment at least, with the two digital images printed on silk coming from a series that has been around for awhile. All of these works are of various sizes, and the smaller ones I think of as maquettes, sort of, but may make their way to the light of day. Who knows....
untitled
digital photo-based print on onionskin paper,
wax, mulberry paper, mylar, found wood
2011 appr. 11 x 14"
untitled (from the working title Open Book Series)
mulberry paper, pigment stick, graphite, wax
2011 appr. 14 x 18"
untitled
wax, pigment stick, graphite, powdered pigment on mulberry paper
note: this has four deckled edges
2011 appr. 22 x 30"
untitled
wax, pigment stick, graphite, powdered pigment on mulberry paper
2011 appr. 28 x 42"
untitled (from the working title Open Book Series)
mulberry paper, pigment stick, graphite, wax mounted on Arches paper (22 x 30)
2011 appr. 18 x 24"
untitled
wax, pigment stick, graphite,
powdered pigment on mulberry paper
2011 appr. 28 x 42"
untitled
wax, pigment stick, graphite,
powdered pigment on mulberry paper
2011 appr. 28 x 42"
untitled
digital photo-based print on onionskin paper,
wax, mulberry paper, mylar
2011 appr. 11 x 14"
From the Suspension Series (scrim)
pigment-based ink on silk, mylar, wax,
on mulberry paper and translucent corrugated plastic
on mulberry paper and translucent corrugated plastic
2010/11 appr. 20 x 30"
