I don’t
usually write about what work in process in my studio because it’s hard to
photograph, and explain, but I really like what my tabletop looks like right
now, and I wanted to share it.
Between
Christmas and New Years Day, the ice on a local pond was thick and very safe to
walk on. It went from perfectly smooth to snow covered that week. We had the
opportunity to walk on it three times, and I took photographs each time.
One group of
photos is of leaves imbedded in the ice. I have begun to prepare them for my
next series of eight 14” x 14” mixed media paintings, that I might name Beyond the Fence:
Leaves in the Ice, or something like that.
I’m going to use eight different leaf/ice photos next to a blown up, out of proportion
version of the same leaf (as shown above), combined with stitched monoprints of a construction
fence. It will be a similar combination of layering used for the January 2014 and November 2013 12 x 12 x 12s I created.
Above are two sets of leaf photos taped to my worktable while I apply ten layers of acrylic matt medium on them to make the “skins” of the images. Below is a picture of the table quite full of leaf/ice photos, as well as four photos of a construction fence surrounding a tree in Boston, that I’m preparing for a separate painting, my February 2014 12 x 12 x 12.
