more from Procreate
more ipad sketches
This time using the Procreate App.
iphone sketches
Brushes app
Paper 53
I can't help feeling like I'm cheating on Steve Sprang (developer of 'Brushes') when I download other drawing apps, but I've been hearing such good things about Paper 53 I thought I should give it a try. The pencil has a great, natural feel to it--I'll give it that. But the tools and palette are too limited. And the upcharge for each individual brush makes me grumpy. I don't like being nickled and dimed. I get enough of that at the muni meter. In the meantime, I'll continue my love affair with Steve...even if he doesn't know I exist anymore.
Lonelyville
I'm back on track. Here's the new plan: crank out 40,000 tiny watercolors--sell them @ $15 a pop--buy my beloved house on Fire Island--spend the rest of my life painting tiny watercoiors. Who wants the first one?
Enormous Tiny Art Show 11
I'm happy to be participating again with a great group of people. Show opens February 1st in Portsmouth NH.
new paintings for Nahcotta's Enormous Tiny Art show
6"x6" oil on wood
drawing board
My winter 'studio'. Tucked into the corner of our cozy tv room is this magnificent inlay desk that was handmade for my great (great?) grandfather by a German cabinet maker. It sat unused and neglected for my entire childhood. After my mother passed away, I adopted it and had it completely restored (including new skeleton keys). I'm happy to report the drawers are now filled with all sorts of painting materials and it's starting to take on the smell of linseed oil.
On the desk are the beginnings of a new series.
new work
working on three new small pieces
6"x6" oil on panel
grey sea
in progress
oil on canvas 24" x 24"
Enormous Tiny Art Show 10
Thrill to be invited back again to this wonderful group show at Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth NH (my pieces here)
snack shack print
new print added to my Etsy shop
not Martha
Today I made 3 batches of encaustic medium. About 30 cakes. That should hold me through the summer. Followed R&F Paints recipe: 9 parts beeswax to 2 parts damar resin. A tedious process of crushing, melting, stirring and straining, but I probably saved a good chunk of money by doing it myself. The stuff is expensive.
clean happy place
Once or twice a year my friend Carol and I swap clean-up days. Yesterday was her turn to come out here and crack the whip (I won't even post a before picture). Thanks Carol!
Fort Tilden in winter
8 x 10 oil on canvas board.
Just playing around with Gamblin's recycled Torrit Grey and a stack of old canvas boards I have laying around. I think I'll gesso them to kill some of the texture.
sushi peeps
I just can't stop. I'm on a roll.
Boo
Boo watches Tom Waits' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
(Art Rage on ipad)
