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 | Nov 9, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Ask for this one when you stop by the Annual School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Art Sale. Half the proceeds go to scholarship for Museum School students, and half support my art practice. Through the Light I Hear, No. 19, 2018, encaustic, oil and wax...
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 | May 11, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s one of the Home/Away pieces with the “fencing” applied. I was thinking that how you think about Home, or what “away” means can depend on which side of the fence you are looking through. More on this later as I work out my statement...
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...
