by Debra Claffey | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
A friend gave me some pre-cut mats, with a 2 x 2-inch opening. I’m a big picture kind of person, and scaling my marks to this size seemed out of the realm of possibility. So I scrounged through samples from my Introducing Cold Wax Painting workshop, playing with...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Otty Merrill, a new colleague from New England Wax, spent the day here for a workshop in painting with cold wax medium. She’s a quick study! We worked on paper since it was just a short workshop and paper allows us to works with layers on semi-dry work. I...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 13, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This monotype was one of the first impressions I took from a sheet of Rives BFK paper covered with a layer of indigo paint mixed with cold wax medium. The thin ‘no-name’ Asian paper really allowed for a line with varied pressure that looked almost like...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 13, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
For this post, I just wanted to talk about a little bit of delight that comes with working on trace monotypes. The term trace monotype seems to imply a line drawing, an impression of the tool into the ink (always paint for me), but there is another happy result....
