500th post!

May 21, 2012
Copy, pen and white-out
4x5"

It is hard to believe that I have posted 500 drawings, prints and paintings since I started this blog back in 2005.  This little cartoon is the base drawing for a blockprint, most likely the holiday card later this year.

Bould Beach

May 20, 2012
Pen on paper
4.25x5.75"

Took the family to Groton State forest this Sunday and we actually went swimming in the lake.  Made this sketch in the sun while the boys played in the sand.

Accidentally left my pencils at home,
perfect day at boulder beach,
thank the Gods,
for technical pens.
Big Deer Mountain.

Spring Greens

May 19, 2012

Pencil on paper

4x5.25"

I love my 9-year old's piano lesson.  I get to walk around this beautiful old farm and make sketches while I wait for him to be done with the lesson.

Apple tree morning,

spring greens,

birds singing all around.

Tritium Leaks

May 17, 2012
Pencil on paper
4.5x6.75"

Back in 2007-8 I had an idea at the end of my graduate studies at Goddard College about sketching VT Yankee and using the drawing as a springboard for a series of prints and paper constructions. After almost five years I used a vacation day and took a two-hour drive down to southern NH to make a 20 minute sketch.


It could not have been a more beautiful day and I actually had to hunt for a place to sketch by using Google maps and was pleased to find a nature trail along the NH side of the Connecticut River, across from the power plant. There is this contradiction of sketching in the spring-time bounty that is VT across from a symbol of what is to me, the nearsighted corporate greed that is rampant though out this country.

How many accidents do we need before it is shut down?

Greensboro Sketch

May 11, 2012
Pencil on paper

No. 19
Saturday morning,
piano lessons for one.
Sketching in the sun,
for the other.

Crawford Notch Sketch

May 11, 2012
Pencil on paper

Made a quick sketch and poem on a family outing to New Hampshire this weekend.

Crawford Notch.
Windblown sandwiches,
mountainforms,
simple

Greensboro Sketch

February 18, 2012
Pencil on paper

Never got around to posting this little sketch and poem.

Windblown snow on frozen Caspian Lake.

Always a car,

passing by close at hand.

Yet still peaceful.

Sabin's Pasture No. 1

March 7, 2012
Monotype
6"x9"

For my first monotype in a few months i was really pleased with this one as a first effort.  I have been contemplating how to created some work that has a new feel and like the methods I used last night. 

I plan to meet with a fellow printmaker at SPA in Barre once a month and hope to create a new body of landscapes, but need to get out and make some drawings for new source material over the next few weeks.

Sabin's Pasture No. 2

March 7, 2012

Monoprint
6"x9"

This one was a good learning experience as I should have been watching my plate better.  I could see the copper coming through the color and should have known that those little dabs of plate would print white. 

I may work into this over the weekend with some watercolor as I think this is a strong print.

Sabin's pasture No. 3

March 7, 2012
Monoprint
6"x9"

The pure ghosot of the painted plate was not as strong as I had hoped.

Factory No. 1

March 7, 2012

Monoprint
6"x9"

Created this one mostly from my imagination but I used a drawing from my sketchbook as a starting point. 

May send this one off to the Lessedra Annual in Bulgaria next week.

Factory No. 2

March 7, 2012

Monoprint
6"x9"

Next time I print I think I will follow the same methodology, creating a black and white monotype and then painting into the ghost.  Using oil paints instead of colored ink will make the difference in being able to get the color thin enough.

Factory No. 3

March 7, 2012
Monoprint
6"x9"

This was the last print of the night and the least successful.

Frozen River Ghost

February 11, 2012

Monotype on Stonehenge gray paper

5"x7"

Worked the ghost print with some additional ink and I like this version better than the first.  It was just nice to have time to pull a couple of prints.  This one is growing on me as I look at it...



Frozen River

February 11, 2012

Monotype on Gray Stonehenge paper

5"x7"

At the end of my class I pulled two quick prints before I cleaned up.  Worked very rapidly on this one and the ghost, they have a nice spontaneous feel to them for something that took less than five minutes...

Frozen River

February 5, 2012

2H pencil on Paper

4"x5.5"

Note to self, a 2H pencil drawing is difficult to scan.  Wrote a little poem as I stood in the sun after making this little sketch.

Down by the river,

Where the air is crisp and cool.

I can hear distant cars,

That are never very far away.