by DCadmin | Mar 10, 2023 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events
Sign up here! Home Cooking: Gelatin Plates from ScratchandSave It for Later: Preserving Botanicals for Monotyping More info to come on which weeks my videos will be released. Stay tuned! a new video class every weekfor 52 weeks by 26 artistsand lifetime access...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
I am pleased and honored to announce that my teaching connection with R & F Paints in Kingston, New York, has been made official. They have included me in the Tier Artist roster, along with Lorraine Glessner in Pennsylvania, Shelley...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Workshops
My studio is in a small town in the exurbs of a NH city. My studio is not at all difficult to find but it’s a minimum of a half-hour drive from anywhere! So one of the positives outcomes of our current crisis know as Covid-19 is a way to bypass geography. That...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
SO much fun teaching today at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center. What a great group of artists!!! We introduced using cold wax medium with oils on Arches Oil...
by Debra Claffey | Apr 10, 2019 | Updates
New prints going to the Center for Contemporary Printmaking Miniature Print Exhibition 2019. My 2 x 2 inch linocut, Night Bloomer #1, was...
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 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 | 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...
