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This week I’ve been working on my new not-quite-released website (almost there! Thank you steller designer and sweetheart Darin Reid…) and coming across my older fieldwork. One style has particular captured my attention as one I’d like to use more: walnut ink.
When working with walnut ink, I often use a toned paper (such as Canson [...]
I’m developing a new series of Antarctic watercolors and am enamored with my memories, field sketches and photographs of vast skies and luminous light. I’m planning to work fairly large (30″ x 15″) to help capture the sense of scale I felt down south. Last week I completed one painting, using multiple glazes and masking [...]
Ice is a recurring theme for me. Someone asked me a few months ago, “do you always paint ice?” Well, no. Sometimes I paint mountains and rocks and clouds… I just feel there’s so much I still want to express and explore about the subject. One of these days perhaps I’ll start a tropical project [...]
I worked this morning on a painting of Mt. Daniel in the North Cascades. The process of this painting began with my field work in 2007 when I hiked to Mt. Daniel with the North Cascades Glacier Research Project to survey the Ice Worm, Mt. Daniels, and Lynch glaciers. Camped just below the small Ice [...]
It’s been a busy couple weeks with post-opening catch up (for everything I put on hold during my framing work), the holidays, and being knocked out by a cold which forced me to take real weekend (a restful one- I felt like I went into hibernation). Anyways, I’m feeling better and coming out of my den [...]
