Lightness.
Dancing, floating, weightlessness.
A good start.
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Egyptian waters is an incredibly successful series of drawings for me. I have two full series each has 10 drawings. Two of the drawings were recently acquired on the west coast. The two are from the second series and are shown below.
There is interest in four others. I have my fingers crossed.
Each egyptian waters series includes ten ink drawings. These drawings are made using a group of specific marks – a personal hieroglyphics. The pens I use have fixed width nibs. Each drawing is made using only one nib. The vocabulary is made up of marks that in isolation define a discrete aspect of a state of water. When placed in a particular order they create a story about a body of water. This story can be read line by line, or from left to right, or from top to bottom or as one image.
egyptian waters : waiting for a wave
egyptian waters : midnight
Read MoreI’ve been working on some very active drawings this summer. These four red squares are crying out for names. I haven’t discovered them yet. I thought if I put them at my blog I could look at them more and think about names. I also told folks that I would post the drawings when they were finished. So here we go.
This first drawing is confusing me. I drew it moving the paper— sometimes one edge was the top sometimes another. I haven’t settled on this orientation yet but it seems likely it will be this or a complete 180°.
This is like a breeze.
This is the hottest of the group. It might need to be heat.
Read MoreI’ve been working on new drawings for a couple weeks now. I just uploaded my new series Winter Twins to my website. I’ve added one below.
Check out the full series here: http://www.stellauntalan.com
I’m really thrilled to finally get my website relaunched. I was able to scan the entire egyptian waters two series and make a gallery for the drawings. New drawings have been added to the cosmic strings series too. The welcome screen is an actual size snippit from one of my works published at the site. The crop is programmed so it happens and what I get is a surprise. I like that.
It is exhausting trying to keep my art visible especially when I haven’t had the time to participate in any calls for entry recently. Hope you enjoy the new site and the new work. More news coming soon.
Read MoreSpent saturday with my pal photographing a body of work that was too big to scan. It’s exciting to think about getting this work on the web. It’s also cool to think about the whole process of documenting.
The time moves quickly when you have a really good photographer and you are prepared. Yet, you have the time to consider each piece you shoot and become familiar with it again.
I realized that I probably should have changed the background on a whole series to show the white chalk marks… Silly me. Oh, well. The emphasis on the black marks works. I didn’t really think about this until I was more than halfway through the series. I’m not exactly sure what I would do to capture the white chalk. Hmm.
Another problem to solve.
Read MoreI worked lots of hours yesterday on the new website. The work that is most difficult is the decisions I have to make as an artist about how I want my work seen — in what context. Do I want these images grouped together even though the chronology would place them near eachother? How many galleries of images do I want to show? Naming, oh my naming. Each series creates an onion skin layering of titles. How do I want that to work?
How many new photos do I need?
Am I putting a photo of me with the bio?
Geeze. Now I’m really glad we’re making heavybubble.com
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Read MoreOk, lots is going on behind the scenes. I’m moving my art site into the heavybubble framework. I look forward to letting everybody take a look at my work in the new space.
Heavy bubble is a service that Stellarvisions has been working on for several months. Artists will be able to create and maintain their own websites. We will be building numerous designs that are perfect for the presentation of work in a professional setting.
The thing is I do need some work photographed.
Oh well, its always that way.
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Read MoreI finally have posted four pieces that were drawn during the summer. I was investigating making drawings with pencil and sitting down — a very different experience for me in the studio.
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