by DCadmin | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
I am delighted to have been included in Ann Landi’s Vasari 21 article, What Is a Drawing? Part Three, recently. She has written about how our definition of what makes a drawing a drawing has changed over time. Part One was published in 2016 and discussed the...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
The life of this piece began on Rives BFK paper, an encaustic drawing, with oil and wax paint as a “wipe”, and then an oil and wax overpainting. We’ll see where it goes from here. Three Leaf Series, Untitled, 2018, encaustic, oil and wax, graphite on...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This began as a demonstration painting, where I was showing how encaustic can be used as a drawing material. I covered the encaustic drawing with oil and wax paint, expressly for the way the paint wipes off the encaustic, but sinks into the lovely Rives paper. The...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
It might be hard to imagine the final image coming from this one. While it has some nice areas, it just wasn’t exciting me. That’s what every artist is after, i think. That moment when all the parts comes together and make you go “wow, ok.”...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This is a new layer over a work in oil, wax, and graphite that I wasn’t satisfied with. It’s much better now with a new layer of transferred painting and drawing. Untitled, 2018, oil, wax, on Rives BFK paper, 24 x 24 inches ← Waiting For Paint To...
by Debra Claffey | May 11, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s one of the Home/Away pieces with the “fencing” applied. I was thinking that how you think about Home, or what “away” means can depend on which side of the fence you are looking through. More on this later as I work out my statement...
by Debra Claffey | May 6, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s a photo of one of the 8 x 8 inch pieces I’m making for our New England Wax Art Swap called “Home/Away”. It’s not complete. There will be another layer of drawing on top before I’m done. ← A Swap Among Friends Home/Away...
by Debra Claffey | May 4, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
These are the beginnings for an art swap project that we are doing in New England Wax. Twenty-one members are making 22 unique pieces that will be collated into a portfolio for each of us. It’s a fabulous way to share work and make a record of our time together...
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:...
