Pieces Sold at the Show

Our Garden Party Art Show was a great success!  I fear I talked people's heads off, but they were all kind enough to listen.

I sold three pieces at the show.  If I'd thought ahead I would have taken better pics of them.  ;-j

Once In a Blue Moon, woodcut

Paleo Dreams, monoprint

Paleo-Ho-Ho, woodcut

I could get used to this idea of selling my art.  ;-]  I guess I'd better start taking better pictures of my art.

A Pile of Leaves

This is the one shown being pulled in the previous post.


Red skies take warning.


Copper skies.


This one's a double -- I pulled two different prints off this plate.


Night Fall. This one's my entry in the autumn EAST challenge on Etsy.

Most of these can be seen in detail in my etsy shop: http://ellenshipley.etsy.com/, if anyone's interested. 8-]

Spiral Dance

Here's a fallish-looking leaf spiral monoprint. The plate just gets richer the longer I ink and print. 8-] I love monoprints with stencils (and leaves).

A Good Day in the Print Lab

One of many monoprints I pulled today, playing with leaves and spiral stencils. This particular print is a ghost, generally paler than the first pass.

Matte Medium instead of Fixative for Pastel

Showed Jim my pastel monotypes. He suggested cutting matte medium 50/50 with water and spraying it on with an airbrush (ha!). It's lighter than fixative and doesn't turn dark. Don't have an airbrush, but I may get to try it out sometime.

Entwined Pastel

4x6 monoprint w/ pastel

Pastel Ghost

mono_ghost w/ pastel

These little piggies are just too kewt. This is a second ghost print, so it's very light. I colored it as practice for the Valentine piggies. Kewt in its own right.

Entwined

My monsters can be so kewt when they're sleeping. ;-> I love how they're entwined. They sleep all over each other (and us). Here they're being slug-a-beds.

I did this monoprint yesterday. I'll see what I can do with pastel tomorrow (alas at home, as school is closed for the holiday). No class again until next Wed.! The grups are grumpy over it.

Valentine Piglets

I did this monoprint on Monday in class. It's the second piece of art I've done since my wrist was broken. If I rest it on a bridge I can do just fine. I colored it with pastel pencils and nu-pastels. I'm really enjoying these pastels, tho I don't care for fixative. I don't like how it darkens a picture. I'm not sure what else I can do to keep the pastel from flaking off (or attaching to glass in a frame), but I'll see what I can turn up.

I gave this to Bill for Valentine's day. ;-]

crane

crane monoprint
Finally! My first print since breaking my wrist. This is a monoprint, w/o my brace but with a bridge. Worked really well. 8-]

Spirals and Leaves

Spirals and leaves. Monotypes with stencils. I went a little crazy last week -- I think I cranked out about 40 of these little things. They're like potato chips -- you can't do just one. I finally had to quit when I ran out of paper -- twice. ;-> I could do these all day. They push my o/c button.

I think the 3rd one down is actually the first print. From there all permutations progressed (in no particular order). My inks were mixed with white, so I wasn't getting any transparent overlays. That's for next time. I like the light colors I was getting (tho in the case of the 1st one, you can barely see the lavendar spiral).

I may use the bulk of them for a print exchange, as they surely constitute an edition, if a varied one. 8-]

A Fool and His Bunny...

...Are Soon Parted.

Shameless pun. ;- y This is a twist on the Fool Tarot card. The fool is usually accompanied by a small dog. Here he's traveling with a bunny...but not for much longer.

I used watercolor pencils to punch up a monotype ghost. Next I'll try ordinary watercolors.

Is It Live or Is It Memorex?

A fool and his bunny are soon parted. ;-j



Actually it's neither. They're both ghost prints. The plate was overinked and the first print was very dark. But there was still a lot of ink on the plate so I made several ghosts. Then, on a lark, I decided to see if the over-dark print would print, so I put it on top of the plate and printed several more. I actually ended up with an edition of 10 monotypes from one plate! That's gotta be a record.

Diagonal Dog

I know, the orange is distracting, but which looks better do you think -- flat or on edge?

Loki Lounge Lizard

monotype 4" square

Here's Loki just lolligagging around. His favorite position on the couch. It's also my way of making lemonade out of a particularly sour lemon. The blue was way too sticky and hard to work with so I rerolled with red and traced again. Faint blue lines came up by way of outline, and as I worked I got a kewl grape (except for a few nicely placed patches of red). So all in all a success.
I liked the background when I did it, but I think I'd make it recede into the background next time. It does on the ghosts.

Whispers

viscosity monotype 4"x6"

Whispers, more cave art, with an emphasis on secondary colors. Didn't manage any green, but I've got a nice maroon, purple, orange thing going on.

It's hard to tell intensities with a monotype. Hence the rock weathering comes forward a little more than I intended.

I have ghosts to watercolor, with one on Arches 88 for colored pencil.

Punkin

Monotype 4"x6"
Billy's first Halloween. Mmmm, tasty. I think he was trying to eat the light.
Monotypes are compulsive. I need to watercolor the ghost. It's overall softer with no dark lines. I'm really taken with the technique, tho you can't exactly make an edition.
I want to do this image as a woodcut. I think it would be pretty interestng.

Ewe & Eye

monotype, 4"x6"
Ewe & Eye

Singing In The Rain

4"x4" monotype

Billy had just seen Singing In The Rain, so when it began to sprinkle, it was a natural. ;->

Sheep Monotype

4"x4", monotype

Working on tone and texture in my monotypes (thanx to Belinda's mentoring). 8-] As she says, it's just removing ink. Yeah, right. Like drawing is just adding ink. ;-j