oil colors…

My current run of OIL PAINTINGS are a departure from earlier works. I do love the colors and textures of the skies, mountains and deserts of New Mexico and the desert southwest. Working with a rough grisaille and multiple layers of glazes, washes and overlaid brushwork, I hope to do justice to these landscapes and cloudscapes. 

cyanotypes…

The CYANOTYPE, an iron-based photographic process, was the first simple, practical, non-silver photograph. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1842, just three short years after the announcement of the discovery of photography, the cyanotype provided permanent images in an array of rich prussian blues.  The revival of the cyanotype process among contemporary artists who, like the very first users, hand-coat their own papers has shown there is a case to be made for the rehabilitation of cyanotype as a fine art printing medium. The toning process I use to change the image from blue, is a second processing step using black and green teas, yerba mate, coffee, even red wine and wine tannins yielding a variety of permanent sepias.

prints…

DRYPOINTS are a very traditional method of printmaking, the image is created by incising into a plate, coating the plate with ink, wiping the surface ink away, and then pressing the remaining image onto paper. Due to the inevitable degradation of the engraved surface, drypoints are by necessity printed in short editions.

MONOTYPES are technically prints, but a transferred image of only one. My process normally involves drawing on a fully inked glass sheet, removing the ink using razor blades, solvents, and or a variety of scraping tools, then transferring the remaining image by hand to paper.