Tag Archives: monotype

Ancestor, Memory, and a happy accident.

Posted on December 8, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

I realized as of late that I neglected to share with you two of the monotype/gouache/collage pieces I did in September when working with the Atelier Meridian.  These two works were actually the first images that I pulled in the … Continue reading →

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The Pelican

Posted on October 26, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

When traveling to Europe ten or so years ago I became very enamored of the medieval representation of the pelican.  Now when in various churches, museums or town squares with students (like this last May in a square in Brugge,)  … Continue reading →

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“Golden” and “Evensong”

Posted on October 21, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

I’m currently in the process of framing away my recent mixed media monotypes.  I’m struck how such a large part of creating art doesn’t involve “making art” at all! Here are two other developments from the monotypes I created in … Continue reading →

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Thunderstorm monoprint

Posted on October 14, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

Well, out of the eleven monoprints I pulled some weeks ago only two are being kept the way they came off the press. And this piece is one of them. The other nine are finished but are yet to be … Continue reading →

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Variations on a Theme

Posted on September 15, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

When I was about seven, I received a toy my parent’s gave me that they had gotten in their travels to Ireland.  It was a wooden stacking head of a man with blue eyes and a yellow pipe.  The brim … Continue reading →

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Making Monotypes at the Atelier Meridian

Posted on September 5, 2009 by abiggerworldyet

Decided to dive into printmaking with master printmaker Jane Pagliarulo at the “Atelier Meridian” in downtown Portland for the past two days; and had a very good time indeed.   Jane, after working for years in Santa Fe and Hood … Continue reading →

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