by Debra Claffey | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates, Works-in-progress
It was great fun to speak to the museum docents at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts along with fellow artists Pat Gerkin and Charyl Weissbach (three of the four artists in our group Elemental) today. They showed such interest and asked intelligent questions! We met...
by Debra Claffey | Sep 2, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
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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.”...
