by Debra Claffey | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
My tabletop is my monotype plate. This is why I like hand-printing from a panel. I get to keep these great marks. Alas, I’ve run out of panels, so this will have to get cleaned off… ← New monotype without a press Postcards for the 13th International...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 22, 2019 | Updates, Works-in-progress
← Another layer on monotypes in progress Printing without a press, and without a plate....
by Debra Claffey | Feb 22, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
There are four panels, each 36″ wide and about 72″ high. It’s both direct painting (that got transferred to another piece) and two layers of monotype on sumi-e paper. ← Waiting for paint to dry. New monotype without a press...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
I really am grateful for my little studio, but I run out of room! and often!. As soon as the paint dries, I can move on… ← Next layer went on today. Another layer on monotypes in progress...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
I’ve separated the 72 panels into 3 groupings. It may be temporary. I like the idea of 72 12 x 12 inch panels. ← Trace monotype Waiting for paint to dry....
by Debra Claffey | Feb 17, 2019 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s a new monotype I pulled from another work on paper. It’s on sumi-e paper, about 36 inches wide and about 72 inches high. ← Next Layers Next layer went on today....
by Debra Claffey | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
These are the next two layers on this large 72 x 144 inch painting on 12 x 12 inch panels. It’s a monotype on Rives BFK on the base layer that I started more than 20 years ago. The previous layer was a golden yellow:and here’s the original monotype:...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 21, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
Here are a few reasons to sign up for a day-long workshop at Castle Hill in Truro on May 30. Work with encaustic and mixed media on paper in a slightly new way. These details show the luscious textures of oil/pigment stick paint over encaustic on Rives BFK paper.You...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 19, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
What it will look like when mounted. ← Grey-Green Study #3 Here are a few reasons to sign up...
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 14, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
A detail from a work on Rives BFK paper, using encaustic, R & F pigment stick, and graphite. Loving the difference in surface texture, from gloss to velvety matte. ← Demo work for cold wax painting workshop Grey-Green Study #3...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 12, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Workshops
This is untitled. It’s a demonstration piece, using cold wax medium and oil paint. It’s work I do in my workshops to show how versatile the cold wax medium makes your oil paints. Always with a reminder that technique should inform or transform your content...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress, Workshops
I taught a two-day workshop in painting with cold wax medium this weekend. It’s often easier to demonstrate possibilities than to talk about them. So this one shows layering techniques with drawing to expose the color beneath. I like the color palette, the...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 5, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s a trace monotype done during a busy week of year-end paperwork. No need for a press. I “ink” up the worktable in my studio, which means that I brush, roll and otherwise apply oil paint to the work surface. Then I lay down a sheet of Gampi...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
Spent the morning with fellow WCA/NH member Linda Basha Brookshire, installing Text & Textiles in its home for January at the Nashua Public Library. Left is the Linda and poet S Stephanie collaboration. Right is poet Ala Khaki’s and my collaboration....
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 | Jan 1, 2019 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Wishing everyone the best of the best in the New Year. Peace, health, and love. HPN, 2019, oil and cold wax on panel, 8 x 8...
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... 
