by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Three Leaf series, 2018, encaustic, oil and wax, graphite, Rives BFK paper, mounted on birch, 24 x 24 inches. ← Killing Darlings Reworking As Part Of The Process....
by Debra Claffey | Jul 29, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Videos, Works-in-progress
“In writing, you must kill your darlings.” –William Faulkner In painting, these darlings can cause you to try to save passages you like, and it can prevent you from being completely present to your work and coming up with the best resolution. For me it...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 28, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Life has been busy lately, keeping me out of the studio. So today I started up again, putting a third layer on a work on paper. The first layer was a drawing in encaustic on 24 by 24-inch Rive BFK paper. The second layer was a wash of oil and wax paint. Today’s...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 26, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is the result of a months’ long project we undertook in New England Wax. Just for the fun of it, and as a way to share our art with each other, 19 of us each produced 20 works of art, 8″ x 8″ on paper, to be collated so we each receive a...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 13, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
One of the stages of discovery on the path to a finished painting is what I call the scribble stage. You close your eyes–your artist-critic eye, and let go of all expectation. It really helps in resolving what you’ve done to that point and sometimes leads...
