Category Archives: silkscreen

Dance of the Three Graces? Forest Dance?

Here is preliminary pencil work for a new piece, a return to images of dance. I am planning to keep the line work simpler than in some pieces posted recently, so that the line work can be screen-printed onto watercolor … Continue reading

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New work: “Morning Cup”: Sketch

This is very early work on a new piece. It shall be called Morning Cup. It shall be water-colored. It shall have text. I’m doing a full Mucha on this one.

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In the Garden: Work in Progress — or Finished?

At the present moment, I’m not sure whether to watercolor this one. If I don’t, it is essentially complete. On the one hand, it is very strong as black and white. There is a real danger that color would distract … Continue reading

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Work in progress: “At Home,” inked

There is a brief hiatus here between free-lance jobs, which has allowed a little time for work on things dearer to my soul. I’m calling this one At Home. She will have a sky full of stars above her when … Continue reading

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Evening Dance: Color!

Here is Evening Dance, with watercolor. Forty years of work with drawing the human figure are finally coming together. Again, this is sized so that I can transfer the B+W line work to a transparency and do silkscreen prints, watercoloring … Continue reading

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At work: silkscreen with watercolor

This is where I do drawings and watercolors. You might call it the Light Studio. The Heavy Studio, which is also the Dark Studio — where I do oil painting, etchings, and now silkscreens — is at the other end … Continue reading

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Silkscreen + Work in Progress

OK, here’s my first silkscreen print, ever. (I originally finished that sentence with the word “EVAH,” but you know what? I’m not that up-to-date). This will look very similar to work posted May 6, but it is nevertheless a silkscreen, … Continue reading

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Dance #2: Sketch

Here is preliminary pencil work for my next watercolor. This will be the same size as Carpe Diem, and will also be done as silkscreen/watercolor prints. It will also have a border pattern. Speaking of silkscreening — I am happy … Continue reading

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Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)

It’s amazing what color can do. The draft title was Dance I; now I think it’s Carpe Diem — the Latin quotation which means: “Seize the Day.” Though I say it who shouldn’t, I think this is beautiful. That’s probably … Continue reading

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Dance 1: Pen and ink

Cool, cloudy spring day here. Pleasant, except that the whole day has been one long tug-of-war between free-lance obligations, and certain other projects, closer to my heart. So here’s the pen-and-ink stage of the current piece:

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