by Debra Claffey | Dec 27, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
A small work, only 8 x 8 inches, but it feels large to me, and wintry. I was greatly enjoying the impression that rabbit’s foot fern leaves make in wet oil paint and cold wax medium.Can’t helping adding a line...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 27, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is a birch panel, 8 x 8 inch, with layers of oil paint and cold wax medium in contrasting colors. It carries the imprint of two rabbit’s foot fern leaves from plants in my south-facing studio window, plus a little...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 24, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This small piece doesn’t quite fit into the series I was working on at the time. I opened a pack of handmade paper that was in the studio waiting for its day. I coated most of the dark neutral toned papers with a creamy mix of oil paint and cold wax...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 23, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s another is the Handmade paper series, as yet untitled, of oil and cold wax paint and a fern leaf impression. Love the contrast between the dark paper and the creamy...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 23, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This piece is on a dark handmade paper. I coated it it oil paint and cold wax medium, then impressed a fern leaf into the wet paint. I love that it is skeletal and incomplete. It’s 10 x 10 inches and part of a series of twenty or so pieces on this handmade...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 10, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Using indigo pigment sticks works wonderfully on monotypes made from fern...
