Below is the second in my Portraits series. If you remember, I began this series in the fall with this post. I will be continuing this series on my usual, but comparatively smaller format (30 x 25"), just so I don't run into storage issues. I'd like to keep these on the stretcher and exhibit them eventually.
This piece is of the Black Locust - I'm really enjoying the positive and negative space created here...I was hoping to capture the rhythm of the tree.
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This piece marks an introduction to a different process for me - I have started incorporating ink transfers into my works on canvas. I gather photos that I have taken while outdoors and blow them up or otherwise manipulate them in photoshop, print them out on our inkjet, and I am ready to transfer! It's the safest, least toxic way that I know of to do a transfer, and the results are somewhat unpredictable, but I like that aspect. It's been the biggest change up in my process over the last year - the introduction of chance and an easing up on the reins.
This is the first work in a new series that is inspired by the trees along a walking path that I frequent a lot that runs along Prickett's Creek in Marion County, WV. There are nine trees (that are labeled) along the trail and I will be doing a "portrait" of each one. The first is of the last tree on the trail (just to mix it up!), the yellow poplar. This piece is also the largest painting that I have done since graduating college - it feels great!
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