So I finally updated the Available Prints page with all of the recent work. These prints are now available for sale via my paypal checkout. The buy now button is located at the bottom of the page for each print. I set the price at $60 + $5 shipping for each of them. Many of these prints are one of a kind variations. A few are in small run multiples of a color combination but each is unique, for reasons explained here. …
Hard to believe it’s the end of March and this is the first painting of 2012, Number 423. I have been focused on the prints since January so I haven’t spent much time actually painting. It’s been a lot of fun but I needed to paint. I am still planning a giant painting on this roll of canvas I have.The plan has been to go very heavily multilinear on that since I will have space to put a lot of lines.…
I have been going through a lot of drawings while working towards this new painting. These are a few recent drawings I found interesting.
Current favorites:
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I am pleased to announce that my painting Number 418 has been selected for the Art of the Auction 2012 at The North Carolina Museum of Art. It is an honor to be selected and I am very happy to help support such an important cultural institution.
This year the event will feature work by more than 160 artists from North Carolina. The list includes several of my friends from Golden Belt: Harriet Bellows, Warren Hicks and Madelyn Smoak. …
There are a lot of great things happening at Golden Belt tonight in Durham:
Seven by Constance Pappalardo in Room 100 presented by Durham Arts Guild
Liberty Arts is in the neighborhood now
The Artful Robot in the Green Gallery at Scrap Exchange
Labour Love After Hours with The Beast
Dawn Michelle Williams will be performing live in Room 100 with drummer Michael Rogers at 6pm
Official press-release thingy here.
Golden Belt is located at 807 East Main Street, Durham, NC 27701…
I have this giant roll of canvas and I am in the planning stage of a really big painting. I have been doing a lot of drawing lately in preparation. It should be about 6’x8′. Drawing is such a big part of my process that I don’t often share. I usually about 300-500 individual drawings for ever painting I complete. Sometimes I will paint 2 or 3 off the same page but I feel I need to do at least this many before I find something that I like. …
This set is building off of the negative space prints I did for “This& That” but in the larger format. Those prints were 11″x14″ and these are all closer to 18″x24″. Here is a set of three in orange and green with slightly different registrations:
So far in my print experiments this year, the 2 and 3 color iterations have been the strongest. For this set I used 3 screens, two negative space iterations and one line. The two negative space screens happen to fit together really well in this set and I was able to get a lot of great variations. …
Here is a little preview of an idea I am developing:
The idea of printing negative space instead of the line has been on my mind for awhile. I finally figured out a good way to do this and have printed a few tests. I filled one of the On the Run pens with screen filler and just drew directly on the screen. The filler flows out of the pens decently but there is some evidence of the texture visible in the finished product.…
Hand printing is by nature an imperfect process. Some of the prints come out perfect, others less so. Since I have been out of practice and working in improvised facilities a lot of my prints have come out less than perfect. I’ve been keeping these and experimenting with different ways of using them. One of the first ideas I had was to hand color them with acrylic washes. Here are a couple of the initial attempts:
Most of these prints were from the last print of that color. …