by Debra Claffey | May 16, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Using an image of barbed wire rather that chain link seems to add some tension to the notion of Home/Away. Is it guarding Home? Or preventing you from finding Home? 8 x 8 inch encaustic and gold foil transfer on watercolor paper, 2018 ← Home/Away Series...
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...