by DCadmin | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Many thanks to Annette Cohen and the staff at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, for the great reception at Gateway Gallery last evening ((March 14, 2019). Thank you all who came out to see the big work. It was an absolute delight to have enough...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 3, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Workshops
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting a day-long workshop at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on May 30, 2019 as part of the 13th International Encaustic Conference. It’s titled Mixing Your Mediums (and Maybe your Metaphors). It...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
The life of this piece began on Rives BFK paper, an encaustic drawing, with oil and wax paint as a “wipe”, and then an oil and wax overpainting. We’ll see where it goes from here. Three Leaf Series, Untitled, 2018, encaustic, oil and wax, graphite on...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 4, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This piece began with cold wax and oil paint, rather than a drawing in encaustic on paper. The top layer is oil and wax. No title yet. Three Leaf Series, Untitled, 2018, oil with wax, graphite, on Rives BFK paper mounted to birch, 24 x 24 inches. ← Reworking As...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
It might be hard to imagine the final image coming from this one. While it has some nice areas, it just wasn’t exciting me. That’s what every artist is after, i think. That moment when all the parts comes together and make you go “wow,...
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 | 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...
