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 paper 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 Goes to...
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 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I’m enamored of the color in this piece and in the repetition of the blue star fern shape. I don’t know if it is unique enough, or has that “je ne sais quoi” that makes it mine, so stay tuned to see if it pops up again, either tweaked or...
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...
