Solo Show

The reveal coming and soon, until then enjoy this oil pastel drawing, on paper, I made of a local bin and silo from June 2009.

Art Crawl Iowa 2013 Event

If you would like to participate in Art Crawl Iowa 2013, October 5th and 6th, and are an Iowa Artist please contact me at prairiefibers@hotmail.com and I will add you to the list of participants!

WIP - Hands

Making cave walls, more later!

WIP - Peony No. 3

WIP - Peony No. 3 - Yes BON I can paint photo realism, I had to step away yesterday because I was turning into mud and doing a bang up job of it as well.
Oil on Canvas
12x16 inches

WIP - Signs

Indian Corn No. 2

Indian Corn No. 2

Oil on canvas

12x16 inches

Indian Corn

Indian Corn - 2009

Oil on canvas

12x16 inches

Wild Flowers in Wax

The wax is still warm in this shot and the rice paper buckled something fierce!

The wax has cooled buy isn't quite hard yet, the colors are darker and richer, the texture of the buckled paper worked for me this time.

4x4x2.75 inches Cradled Baltic Birch Panel
Encaustic medium, rice paper, ink, found stamp, and oil sticks

Still Life

An impromptu still life I set up this afternoon, in my wet studio.  I"m not used to painting flat other than fabric so I sat to paint the apple it worked out pretty well in the end, I'll finish the apple painting tomorrow.

Encaustic

Oil paints that have been sitting for a day or two on paper towels.  I will use these in my encaustic panels with the beeswax and medium.  Setting the oil paint aside like this allows the paint to dry faster when it's combined with the beeswax.

Today's Painting Session

Part of my oil pastel collection, the fat ones in the round tub are cattle, or sheep, markers.

I pulled out my ThreeFold magazines the other night and was reviewing some of their techniques. I was monoprinting with acetate sheets back in 1995 when I couldn't afford a really nice large glass plate to print with - the zines are very well written.

I've had this set of pastels since 1995 my classmate gave me his set of deluxe rembrant oil pastels - a wonderful gift for a starving artist at that time!

Today's painting session included a little bit of everything on paper, I was working with some of my older paints and pastels testing their viability.

WIP - Paint on Paper

WIP - Oil Pastels on water color paper that was painted with Golden Acrylic Paints. I'll let the oil pastel dry overnight and lay down more color tomorrow.

Olive Oil

John repacked the olive oil, which came in a rather large bottle, into smaller glass pint jars this afternoon. This increases the shelf life by about three months as we will now move the OO to the basement pantry where it stays a balmy 55-60F year round.