Lots has been happening in my artlife — I was interviewed by Philip Hartigan, chosen for MADE IN PHILLY, and I'm madly getting ready for Philadelphia Open Studios Tour this weekend. Hope to see you.

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October 5 - 6, 2013
Noon - 6 PM

Morning coffee and contemplating the arrangement of my studio for open studios.

I have such a love/hate relationship with open studios. The idea of allowing people I don't know into such a personal and sacred place can almost paralyze me. Often I leave the room when someone visits. I just can't watch them peering. 

The MADE IN PHILLY campaign takes over traditional advertising spaces to showcase the extraordinary but often untold quantity and quality of visual art being produced in Philadelphia...and connects each work displayed to the neighborhood (even block) where it was created.

I started to make some prototypes for my books that I intend to enter in RiTUAL. an upcoming show in Philadelphia. Cutting a larger sheet of paper down to size, folding it in half, cutting the slit, folding it again.

It's beginning to feel like a ritual.

A look at the bus shelter poster 8 blocks away from my studio included in the MADE IN PHILLY project for Philadelphia Open Studio tours. I'm one of 50 artists seclected for the project. This is Google Street View. I'll get a pic when it is installed.

In the studio tuesday I continued work on my lone wolf.

I custom mixed the green and began to make tonal marks in a path around the perimeter of the sheet. I added a layer of marks, white caisen paint tapped on like a stamp. It is one of the marks I have added to my vocabulary for these larger drawings.

I mixed a transparent yellow ink and sliced the vertical space with three stripes. This is where I am right now. It's hanging waiting for me to return.

The last group in my series of nine.

I still haven't really had a chance to look at these dry yet. So I don't really know what the look like. But I do know that in my brain when I look at them from across the room I think they are green. That is the interesting aspect of each of the three sets that I have made. Each set is two colors but the in two sets the color that is dominant is a combination of the two colors. In the red and blue set the end result was not.

This is my second set of images in the current series. Sorry are they are so poor. I think I was bleary eyed.

This color experience is quite amazing. The work right now is a direct result of no expectations. I only have three more that are coming. Enjoy.

August is turning out to be a wonderful month. I am pleased to share this interview by artist and writer Philip Hartigan for his blog.

Spent an amazing day in the studio yesterday working on new drawings. I purchased some new ink a week or two back and finally got to work with it. Sculptor Amy Ralston was making a studio visit and she turned into my assistant, what a luxury.

I set out to make nine new drawings.