by Debra Claffey | May 11, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
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by Debra Claffey | May 6, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
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by Debra Claffey | May 3, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, workshops
I had a wonderful time teaching a two-day advanced mixed media painting workshop with the very talented Donna Hamil Talman painting. We focused on using cold wax techniques to further her abstract compositions. The two days gave us more opportunity to work with dry...
by Debra Claffey | Apr 14, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions, Updates
Indigo Ice with Pink, 2018, encaustic, oil, graphite, monotype on panel, 36″ x 36 They have found some room for this big one! Also for a few others, in a huge exhibition of printmakers’ works. Gallery Directors John and Gillian Ross say this:...
by Debra Claffey | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
A detail from Indigo Ice, No. 4, I am about to deliver it to the Art Complex Museum, in Duxbury, Mass., for the Monotype Guild of New England’s Monotype/Monoprint show. Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass....
by Debra Claffey | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
A few posts back I started to write a bit about demonstrating painting processes. The main item of interest seems to be the layering of painting and drawing. So I bring pieces in various stages of completion to show how the next layer in a series of layers might go...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This third or fourth Spring nor’easter is crampin’ my style. I was scheduled to do a painting demonstration for a local art association and the weather just insisted on changing our minds.We’ll do it later in the year, for sure. But I thought...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This one is complete but as yet untitled. It’s the second in a new series with these collaged vertical and horizontal bars. The print impression of the blue star fern leaves enliven the push-pull of the spaces in a good way. I feel you can wander around in the...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 28, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
We all have moody days, so look later for an update on this one. This is what happens when you want to rework a piece without losing everything you liked. I don’t think it will survive the next studio session! And…a better photo, please! Too green! ← Detail from...
