Today I’m working on some of the last pieces for my show opening in November. Here’s the pencil sketch and the painting in progress for Osprey.
Osprey
Sketch to Painting
A peek in my studio at how my Thursday Sketch Day work evolves into finished paintings. This piece will be part of my upcoming show: That Space Between Flying and Falling at Laconia Gallery in the Fall.
Sketchday painting
Today, and through the month of August, Thursday Sketch Day is going to be about sketches and design work for my upcoming solo show Laconia Gallery. It’s a little ways off, but I’m making all new work for this installation. I hope you enjoy these sneak peeks!
Milestone reached
Many of you know that I have a solo show coming up this Fall. All new work. These will be more cut-silhouettes, in the same mode as the “Instinct to Dream” installation I’ve had in my studio for the past two SOSes. Today I’ve crossed a major milestone in the project, in sending off the last of the vector files for laser cutting. From here I’ll be mostly in to painting for the next two – three months. I’m up to low-grade, long-range panic about it now, as I still have a lot of work to do. But I am incredibly psyched and relieved to have this part done!
That Space Between Flying and Falling opens with a reception, Friday, November 4 at Laconia Gallery on Harrison Ave., Boston.
Tiny Ships
I’m creating a set of Tiny Spanish Galeons for the Tiny Tall Ship Festival produced by Greg Cook for the City of Somerville. Visitor will get to color and assemble their own ships to take home with them.
I used Autodesk Sketchbook for the quick sketching and mock ups, then switched to Adobe Illustrator for making vector files for the laser cutter.
Building a fox
Foxy, foxy on the wall, Who’s the most vulpine of them all?
Now complete with stiffened core and edge stitching she’s ready for grommets and installation!
Long Night of SOS Prep
That point in a long string of late nights in studio when the only reasonable response is an unreasonably large sushi order. Oh, and also, I’m making a lot of really cool new work, and you should come see it this weekend.
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Aunties
In about six months, I’ll be hanging a solo exhibition at Laconia Gallery in Boston. I began the design process by built this 1/2″ scale model to help me design how the overall installation will come together.
Here “Patricia” and “Eunice,” named after two of my aunts, take in the work.
Sketches to Vectors
The designs for my cut silhouette paintings start out as sketches in my sketchbook. From those I create freehand loose drawings of how that sketch could work as a silhouette, taking careful consideration of the structural concerns of the material. If I’m going to cut the piece on a laser cutter (rather than by hand with a saw) then I need to redraw it again as a vector file that the laser-cutter can follow.
Playing with lasers
Today I’m playing with lasers, cutting new silhouette shapes. These are the beginnings of a major solo installation in the Fall.
