by Debra Claffey | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Another example of working with different surface textures: gloss encaustic and matte pigment stick, Grey-Green Study #3, encaustic, pigment stick, graphite on paper.9 x 9 inches ← A Detail Time for mounting paper to panel...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 1, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I’m always short of room when I start pulling monotypes. That big yellow thing on the wall is a modular painting in progress, too wet to pile up just yet. These monotypes are studies for an idea I have for those cylinders. Stay tuned for further...
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 | Jun 10, 2018 | Events, Updates, Works-in-progress
This 12″x12″ monotype collage is going to Provincetown Art Association and Museum for their Silent Auction. Bids start at $125. PAAM is one of the oldest art associations in the country on panel ← Barbed Wire Waiting For Paint To Dry...zzzzz....
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 21, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
This personal favorite has been selected by juror Judith Brodsky, a personal hero, for the Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition, at The Art Complex Museum: May 6 – September 2, 2018. Yeay! Indigo and Ice, No. 6, monotypes, encaustic, oil, on...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 16, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
This little 8″ x 8″ piece is going to Gallery Blink for their Impressions exhibition. Passionflower Leaf Variation on panel. April 13 – May 6, 2018 Gallery Blink 1963 Massachusetts Avenue Lexington, Mass. ← Cabin Fever Indigo and Ice #6...
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...
