The Head Keeps Moving

mid week, last week, I started an observational self 

portrait. below are the 3 stages over a few days.

aluminum leaf and drawing media on canvas

12x14" copyright clarke 2015

gloucester ma

above blocking in the big shapes. the head caught 

between two gestures. I kept changing my mind.

midway, open mouth? closed mouth? where's

the center? lift the head, place it upon a column.

final. changed dynamic to finish, registering

the shock of losing Suzy. ambient light.

onwards,

deb.

Chrome Orange

ChromeOrange is a standing self portrait, started last spring.

Above is the current state. Following are a few of the previous

states. Something kept bugging me. I finally have the figure

firmly planted on the floor and a fair resolution to the lower right.

The black chalk lines will change. It's not finished. I'll set it aside for

now. Paintings happen slowly and since I figure everything out on

the canvas, change is constant until it is signed.

This state could have worked; but the white chalk

bugged me, as well as the fight for space of the reds.

almost; except the painting kept dividing into two,

with a floor plane that wouldn't hold it's space. i loved

this state for about 2 hours.

Slip sliding away and feet of cement.This is where I put 

the brush down last spring. The color bugged me.

This block headed monk is where it all started.

Any one of the various states would have been 

fine. I'm not a millionaire, can you tell?

best,

and onward.

deb.

Dirty Snow

Dirty Snow, a drawing. 12x14" on aluminum leaf on canvas.

copyright clarke 2015 gloucester ma

The snow is melting, turning dirty with the slow melt. Yesterday

I finally finished a drawing of the house up the hill after a long

winter of looking at it every day. Looks pretty simple; HAH! It

gave me a good work out. 

There is another canvas that is prepared with glare and aluminum

leaf. This morning's drawing will be this yellow house, again. The

house sold last fall. I had better have my visual say about this place

before the new owners move in and decide to paint it another color.

best and onward,

deb.

Painting: Cripple Cove lowtide

Every once-in-awhile I have a go at the view towards Joey.

These are the remnants of the pier which burned down sometime

in the seventies. Wally's packing house once stood on these burnt

pilings stubs. I packed whiting there one very cold season when

I was just a girl and money packing fresh fish was good.

There were 2 paintings of this view. I killed one and kept the

best. 20x20" oil on canvas.

copyright clarke 2015

gloucester ma

feet on floor, eyes forward, brush-in-hand,

onward

deb.

FineArtAmerica Metal Print

Yesterday the metal print of A Face I Remember arrived via UPS.

The original 5x5x.375" drawing with metal leaf drawing on the left.

8x8.875" metal print on the right. The drawing is strong enough to

hold the print together. The metal print is laminated onto the metal

then top coated with some type of acrylic. The print does not have

the warmth and depth of the original tile. I thought the metal plate

would be more present in the print. Oh, well. It is still a good thing.

Perhaps I will do a series of the tile under different light and then

order up some prints to use as the basis for new work. 

The original is for sale, if interested contact me at debbieclarkeart@gmail.com.

If you would like to purchase prints, click the shopping cart link in the sidebar.
FineArtAmerica provides lots of choices from paper to canvas to cards to metal
to acrylic to frames, etc. Products are well packed and the ready to hang art looks
very professional. I can't produce this quality at the great prices they offer. All
produced in the U.S,

best,

deb.

Fresh Snow! Fresh Glue.

Turn off the soundtrack, it is a distraction. Good directions. Fresh 

snow is the chill ingredient in the recipe given by Ralph Mayer in

 The Artist Handbook of Materials and Techniques. This glue stays sticky

for a long time. it has been written that if one lets the glare (egg glue) 

go rotten; it can be used on a dry oil painting for gilding or preparation

for painting with egg tempera. 

I have 7 12x14" stretched lightweight canvas to gild. There is freshly

made glare from Tuesday's snow in the fridge. There are 500

leaves of 6.24" x 6.24" aluminum leaf. A good day to prepare the 

canvas for drawing upon.

best and onward,
deb

Surprise!

Sorting through old image files and discovered this painting from 2004/2005. It's a color spot painting, a synthesis of Helen WanWyck's color recipes and Hawthorne's color approach, addressed through critiques in Hawthorne on Painting

I'm busy painting, while giving some time to online marketing.

feet on the floor,
eyes forward,
brush-in-hand.

best,
deb.

Cripple Cove Prints

Last fall I started a series of distressed digital prints. I photographed the print on 10/1 and the date is imprinted on the photo of the distressed print. The prints of the prints will be offered for sale through FineArtsAmerica, as soon as I erase the date stamp. not sure why the date stamp was set. It detracts from the whole A link will be posted as soon as the images are available for sale 

Best as always,

deb.