In my studio today.

I really went to my studio today expecting nothing. I thought I would clean up and store some tools and supplies I wasn't using right now. I began to do just that while my coffee machine did it's thing.

Nothing is more fun than sharing art adventures with my art gals. This is at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for the Female Gaze exhibition.  I think the title is absolutely stupid and I'm not interested in all of the art. But historically I felt an obligation.

My favorite place for inking —the glass counter.

I have a fabulous glass counter that I use for mixing inks and inking my linos or blocks it's 9 feet long to accomodate a number of colors or mixes. It's easy to clean up too. I purchased two new inks Graphite and Paynes Gray. I have an idea brewing.

Yummy yummy.

I decided that I had just enough time before I left the studio to do draw-downs to sample the ink on white.

You see them while still wet.

And finally with a darker patch at the bottom.

When visiting ICA Philadelphia this past week I spied a piece by Virgil Marti by the reception desk. Nice.

Picked these up today. Ordered them at my fav Artists and Craftsman right around the corner from where I live. Lucky me right?

The start of something.

My interest in printmaking is not to make multiple copies of exactly the same thing. I'm interested in the differences that occur from inking differences and placement and transparent. Planning a vocabulary that will be used over and over again.

Happy to say this piece has a new home in Santa Cruz, California.

cosmic spurs | deep surface
pencil, pastel, and charcoal on board
5.5 x 5.5 inches

2006

private collection

I've got the printmaking bug.

I discovered these three drawings while organizing in my studio this week.