TMI

I’ve been doing a series of drawings, well I call them drawings.  There’s acrylic washes, writing, and collage, along w/ the drawing so maybe they are ‘mixed media”.  Whatever.  I use the oval face of a woman wearing a skull cap as the starting point to investigate the stresses on women, and lately stresses from the world news.  I kept honing in, showing the stress on the cap, then a partial face, and finally just in the eye.  The media is making me worry about women in Arab countries, or Japan, or now, Alabama.  I feel there pain, but I also need to step back.  This is called” Too Much Information.”

TMI
TMI

Drawing or painting.

I haven’t got the love affair w/ acrylic paint that I do with oils.  However, this winter I have been doing drawings that have a lot of acrylic washes and some painting on them.  Some were on vellum, which has a nice translucent quality and smooth texture.  This one is on paper.  I had painted a rant on the paper last fall, but I knew I couldn’t make anything from it.  I drew and painted over it.  You can see part of the word “class” left over from the rant.4-3-11