Studio Update January 25th, 2025

 I just saw this quote and loved it.  I feel EXACTLY the same way!

"Yes, there are various problems; social, ecological, but I don’t paint that. it would add to the voice of despair. Instead I choose to contribute to the joy.” Imero Gobbato

How's that for a view!  Best aerial shot of Mt. Rainier I have ever taken!

I thought since it's winter I would post something winterish.

I'm finishing up work on several things this week and haven't had a moment to get photographs.  Very soon.  In the meantime I received news that I have been juried in to the American Color Print Society.  I'm posting a link to their website but I'm so new that I'm not on the member pages yet.

American Color Print Society

Very much looking forward to participating in their spring show at Abington Art Center in Jenkintown PA in March.  The opening reception is March 15th from 2-4 PM.

It's a particular Honor to be accepted in this Society because of the history of the organization and the link to the white line woodcut printing I do.  Here is some history:

https://www.americancolorprintsociety.org/acps-history

It was a society started by women because they couldn't get their work shown, and color printing wasn't accepted, black and white printing was the norm.

Studio Update-January 3, 2025/January 17, 2025

 Happy New Year!

Working on several projects these days in the Studio.  I like the quiet and lack of distractions in the wintertime to focus on my work.  I'm working a series of three prints of flowers from my garden.  The first floral is still on the block, not yet completed.

I also have a landscape in colored pencil that is about halfway finished.  It's slow going with the drawing, as it is with realism.  I probably have a month in this drawing already.  It's Lake 22 in the Cascades in Washington State.  This is a magical place with a glacier to the left of the scene in my drawing.  I have a way to go until it's completed.

UPDATE:  I've made good progress on this drawing and will be posting another photo this weekend!  It's not finished yet but getting there!

Here is the progress photo!  The water is the hardest part, there are so many layers!  Hope to finish this in another week!

This is an idea I'm playing with and is experimental.  I might not finish it.  White line woodcut with Chine Colle.  I used a luster pigment mixed with color.  Japanese paper at the bottom.

Another snow day experiment.  "Winter Bird" white line woodcut with Chine Colle.  Kikura paper.