Murder at Kiln Manor!

 

....and merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg....one layer of the onion.  The Crows are forged in fire once more!  <insert drums and applause>.

Urban Sketching explorations

Street scene in La Grande, Oregon 6"x6"

Ocean Bleu restaurant, Newport Oregon  4"x8"  

Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, Oregon 4"x8"

Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, Oregon (old woolen mill) 6"x6"

Willamette Heritage Center, Salem Oregon (old woolen mill) 6"x6"

 Pen & ink with Inktense pencils.  Still have a long ways to go, but it's been enjoyable sketching outdoors.   Hadn't drawn in ages.

It's that time Again!

 

....And the kids are back!  Set to sleigh, they're ready to rock the Season!  Available at Art Elements Gallery, Bjornson Winery tasting rooms and Elsinore Framing and Gallery.  

Oil Paint Monoprints

 

Oil paint on Bristol paper.  6" x 9" sheets.

MIxed media collage

 

All images roughly 9"x12".  Collage, Inktense pencils, acrylic, charcoal and ink on mixed media paper.

Echoes of Entropy

Monoprint.  Acrylic on Bristol.  12 x 14-inches.

Monoprinting.....

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spray paint and oil paint exploration.  Not there yet, but on the way.

October Approaches!

 

The Scholar Adept.............

Stoneware, cone 6, with stain.  Roughly 11" high.

Created for an upcoming art auction to benefit the cultural arts.

 

Slip Monotype Vessels....take 3

Stoneware, glazed interior, 8"x3"x4"

Stoneware, glazed interior, 7"x3.5"x3"

 

Slip monotype experimentation...take 2

stoneware, 8 x 3.5 X 3.5 inches.

stoneware vessel, 8 x 4 x 3 inches

stoneware vessel, interior glaze, 4 x 4 x 3

 

Monotypes and monoprints @ the End of Summer

 Exercises in oil paint monotypes and monoprints.   A few with spray paint tossed in.

Houses and slip monoprinting

 

stoneware with slip & oxides.  Roughly 16-inches x 4-inches x 4-inches.

stoneware with slip & oxides.   Roughly 8"x3.5"x3.5" and 13"x4"x4".

An interesting first exploration, but not quite what I had in mind.  More explorations to come.

Studio Sale in August

 

ARTifact......the Spherebot

 

.....stoneware with copper wash.   Roughly 3-inches in diameter.

Home Sweet Home................

Raku Houses.  Roughly 9-inches tall.   Ceramic.

Creating acorns.....

 

.....on the wheel.  Texturing is performed after trimming.

Poets, Actors and Oracles............

 

.....the Pale Court of the King in Yellow.   Charlatans, dreamers and fools that haunt the doomed city of Carcosa.  Sold.

Procession of Poets..................

...........ceramic, stoneware with oxides.   Roughly 9-13 inches tall.   

 

Crows on the Wall...................

prototype wall-hanging crow, stoneware with oxides, about 7-inches tall

Crows on the sculpture wall of the studio 

 

Print Day in May......

 

.....plus a few prints created in the past few weeks.  All are monoprints or monotypes made with oil paint on Bristol.  

Large scale monotype explorations..................

 .....on 18x 24 watercolor paper using Golden Open acrylic paint on a 16x20 gel plate.

Oil paint monotypes.......

 on Bristol paper.  Created using the Dan Tirels' style of applying paint to a plastic sheet and flipping it over onto the paper.  I am addicted to this style of monotyping (or monoprinting depending on the process).

Wheel throwing.............

 

........garden totems bits and bobs.

Freshly Rakued Crow-Kin.........

 .....still hot from the reduction chambers.   The next step is a good scrubbing with scouring powder once they've cooled. 

Raku Firing.................

My Trusty Assistant and Official Observer: Calligraphy Jones

 

Big Monotype Tests.................

 ....18 x 24 Canson watercolor paper with Speedball Block printing ink.   Using a 16x20 gel plate and trying to determine the amount of ink required for these.   It's quite different from using a smaller plate.

My first collagraph.........

 

......after watching many hours of videos on YouTube, I decided to try this process.  I was also curious if I could use my clay slab roller as a printing press.

I cut a small sheet of mat card and applied GAC-100 (an acrylic medium), LiquiTex Stucco paste and Golden Gloss Gel medium in various shapes.  After the mediums dried, I coated the entire piece with Krylon gloss spray.  The coating is to prevent the matboard from soaking up the ink.

I then applied Akua Intaglio ink and wiped it back with cheese cloth, because I have no scrim (a stiffened cheesecloth material).  Since the cheese cloth is quite flexible, I was careful not to over wipe the plate.   I placed the plate on a piece of matboard atop a silicone mat and then used a towel folded in quarters as a blanket (since I do not have proper felt print blankets).

I set the slab roller to the minimum height and rolled the table twice.

print on the left, plate on the right

The resulting print on 88# (189 gsm) paper embossed fairly well and certainly printed.  I soaked the paper in water for about 10 minutes.   The slab roller works, but obviously a real printing press would offer superior results.  Keep in mind that I have zero experience in making or printing collagraph plates, so this is all just an amusing experiment.