My studio is a temple.

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  Today as I thought about the mate­ri­als I will pack for my trip north to the moun­tains, I know my stu­dio wher­ever it is, is a tem­ple. It has a beauty exter­nal and inter­nal. Read More …

In the studio : May 2012

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I started some new draw­ings today. The expe­ri­ence of start­ing this draw­ing has almost con­vinced me to look at mak­ing this series square. I haven’t made any square draw­ings in a while but it seems Read More …

In the studio : May, more changes

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Had to paint this card­board wall. Just too dark. Also decided I will keep it now until I can afford to build the slid­ing wall I have designed. So I laid down a layer of Read More …

new hardware : studio doors

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Sat around with a cuppa joe work­ing on ideas for orga­niz­ing in the stu­dio. My barn door needs some hard­ware and I’ve been work­ing on some ideas to piece together plates and han­dles for a Read More …

In the studio : spring cleaning

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Got in that reor­ga­niz­ing bug that hap­pens in the spring. I’ll be open­ing the stu­dios to the out­side world again so I need to reor­ga­nize so it’s easy to get the out­side breeze. Here’s some Read More …

In the studio : altered books

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I finally began my altered book project. It’s been in my thoughts and sketch­book for over two years. My post  process : 9 x 9 new works [ part one] back in 2010 gives a lit­tle back­ground. Read More …

In the Studio : drawings part two

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I actu­ally was able to get to the stu­dio on Sun­day. Often I’m so fried from the work week I do all the domes­tic stuff that day. But this Sun­day was dif­fer­ent. I hopped on Read More …

In the studio : warm ink

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Mixed and rolled out ink in my stu­dio. The tem­per­a­ture had gone up to 88 degrees and the ink was almost not tacky enough to stick to the roller. After get­ting the graphite ink ready Read More …

in the studio : April

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In my stu­dio today. I really went to my stu­dio today expect­ing noth­ing. I thought I would clean up and store some tools and sup­plies I wasn’t using right now. I began to do just that Read More …

Art gals at PAFA

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Noth­ing is more fun than shar­ing art adven­tures with my art gals. This is at Penn­syl­va­nia Acad­emy of Fine Arts for the Female Gaze exhibition.  I think the title is absolutely stu­pid and I’m not inter­ested Read More …

In the studio : New inks

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My favorite place for ink­ing. I have a fab­u­lous glass counter that I use for mix­ing inks and ink­ing my linos or blocks it’s 9 feet long to acco­mo­date a num­ber of col­ors or mixes. Read More …

I spy Virgil Marti

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When vis­it­ing ICA Philadel­phia this past week I spied a piece by Vir­gil Marti by the recep­tion desk. Nice.