Mar 30
This is a picture of my front yard. We used to have a lawn, but I killed it because I hate Bermuda grass with a furious passionate loathing. In the summer, I let it go dead, but in the winter, I have a vegetable garden and I overseed with flowers. Last year I threw down …
May 17
This is a sign I made for the reading at Wiscon that some fellow writers and I are going to do. I started with an old piece of matboard that I’d painted with several layers of acrylic. I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was …
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
Apr 21
I started out with the gesso resist. I used a greenish wash in the background, with a Victorian bookplate design stamp providing the resist. Since I almost always stick to blue+orange as my color theme, I decided to vary it and go with a sage green+red iron oxide color theme. I did a wash of …
Apr 10
I started out with a gesso resist technique, using a wash of light brown and a stamped gesso design. Honestly I can’t remember how it looked, except that I made the mistake of thinking I’d draw a picture on the background and use it as a springboard for another design. There’s a school of thought …
