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 | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates, Works-in-progress
It was great fun to speak to the museum docents at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts along with fellow artists Pat Gerkin and Charyl Weissbach (three of the four artists in our group Elemental) today. They showed such interest and asked intelligent questions! We met...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This began as a demonstration painting, where I was showing how encaustic can be used as a drawing material. I covered the encaustic drawing with oil and wax paint, expressly for the way the paint wipes off the encaustic, but sinks into the lovely Rives paper. ...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 10, 2018 | Events, Updates, Works-in-progress
This 12″x12″ monotype collage is going to Provincetown Art Association and Museum for their Silent Auction. Bids start at $125. PAAM is one of the oldest art associations in the country on panel ← Barbed Wire Waiting For Paint To Dry...zzzzz....
by Debra Claffey | Mar 16, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
This little 8″ x 8″ piece is going to Gallery Blink for their Impressions exhibition. Passionflower Leaf Variation on panel. April 13 – May 6, 2018 Gallery Blink 1963 Massachusetts Avenue Lexington, Mass. ← Cabin Fever Indigo and Ice #6...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I’m enamored of the color in this piece and in the repetition of the blue star fern shape. I don’t know if it is unique enough, or has that “je ne sais quoi” that makes it mine, so stay tuned to see if it pops up again, either tweaked or...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
This piece has been selected by Curator Theresa Choi, for the 71st Annual NHIA Members Exhibition at Sharon Arts Center Gallery from March 9 to April 22, 2018. There will be an opening reception in the gallery on Friday, March 9 from 5-7pm. The piece is...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This is a monotype made with oil and wax paint without a press, on Asian paper, and mounted to a 36 x 36 inch panel. The drawing is done in the course of pulling the impression. I have been enjoying working with indigo, monotonal but rich. ← A Cold Wax Monotype...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 15, 2017 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is another paper piece from a recent mixed media painting demonstration. It’s encaustic on Rives BFK paper, with oil and wax pigment stick, and graphite, 24 x 24...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Marvelous opening reception at Fuller Craft for SHIFTS: Approaching Encaustic from All Angles. This was an exhibition of work by New England Wax members and was juried by Ben Shattuck, lead curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, Massachusetts. Dietlind Vander...
