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 31, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Three Leaf series, 2018, encaustic, oil and wax, graphite, Rives BFK paper, mounted on birch, 24 x 24 inches. ← Killing Darlings Reworking As Part Of The Process....
by Debra Claffey | Jul 13, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
One of the stages of discovery on the path to a finished painting is what I call the scribble stage. You close your eyes–your artist-critic eye, and let go of all expectation. It really helps in resolving what you’ve done to that point and sometimes leads...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This is a new layer over a work in oil, wax, and graphite that I wasn’t satisfied with. It’s much better now with a new layer of transferred painting and drawing. Untitled, 2018, oil, wax, on Rives BFK paper, 24 x 24 inches ← Waiting For Paint To...
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 | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
So, now it has two more layers, wax-based oil painting and then a layer of graphite drawing. It’s developing. It usually has to sit for a while, before I know what to do next. I’m saving this one for a painting demo next week. ← Layering the Layers...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
A few posts back I started to write a bit about demonstrating painting processes. The main item of interest seems to be the layering of painting and drawing. So I bring pieces in various stages of completion to show how the next layer in a series of layers might go...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts, Updates, Works-in-progress
I am working with a poet on a project for NH Women’s Caucus for Art called Text and Textiles. Eleven New Hampshire poets have selected eleven WCA/NH visual artists for a collaborative project called Text and Textiles. This project was conceived by...
by Debra Claffey | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I wonder where these visual ideas come from. Though the overall look of this feels very different from the rest of the series, I can see that the leaves and their negative spaces turned positive and the circles are elements from many other works. It’s all about...