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August 5: Open Studio & Reading

July 25, 2017

Join me on August 5 in Seattle for Inscape Arts' semi-annual Open Studio. Coinciding this year with Seattle's new Art Fair, our Open Studio event should be a great one.

I'll be giving a reading from my new chapbook, "The Quiet Year," along with poets Brendan McBreen and James Rodgers. I'll also be exhibiting some of the paintings that went into "The Quiet Year" as well as some other good stuff.

Stop by #124 next door to the office on the first floor between 2 and 8 p.m. 

Visit the FB event page for more. 

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Work in progress! Of the three triad studies, I chose the noon one to work on because I really liked the reds and yellows in it. Struggling a little now to capture those colors in the studio, but I'll keep at it. #worksinprogress #oilpainting #issaquahart #seattleart #naturepainting #oil #tree
My exercise for the week: quick plein air triad paintings, done at different times of day: 7:30 a.m., noon, and 6:00 p.m.. I spent one hour each session for two sessions on each one, and now I'm deciding which to develop. My favorite is the noon painting (the cover pic, or the middle one in the lineup.) My least favorite is the 7:30 version; though the colors are nice, I seem to be unable to paint coherently at 7:30 in the morning. Surprise. I used a limited triad palette for each, but I changed the base hues according to how I saw the light. For instance, the red changed from perylene scarlet at noon to Venetian red in the evening painting. #oilpainting #pleinair #quicksketch #naturepainting #woods #issaquahart #seattleart #worksinprogress
And I think I'll call it done, since I have another I'd like to start. :-) Fairy cup lichen, various mosses, and ferns on a stone wall...but I think the crevice is what it's all about, really. I used a limited palette of yellow ochre, cobalt yellow, burnt umber, and DS's permanent blue, plus Mars black and titanium white. I painted the underpainting plein air, and finished with reference photos in the studio. #oilpainting #naturepainting #limitedpalette #issaquahart #seattleart #lichenlove
Getting closer. Since my original underpainting and reference photo, two new fern fronds have started unfurling from the niche in the rocks. I felt it was appropriate to include them. #oilpainting #pnw #naturepainting #seattleart #issaquahart
The new studio in the new house is almost set up, but I couldn't stand not painting for one more minute. This is the first oil I've done in a while; it's a long way from finished but I love how it's coming. I did the first three days or so of this plein air, painting the rock wall behind our house. Moved inside to finish. #oilpainting #seattleart #lauraallen #naturepainting #issaquahart
Getting ready for a house/studio move means finding all sorts of unexpected things. Here's a monster (30×24) still life of my studio shelves I never finished. Will never finish now, but I hate to throw it away....!! #oilpainting #worksnolongerinprogress #whatamess
Snow day sketching and gaming...last day, maybe? #sketchbook #seattlesnowmaggedon2019 #thunderstone #lolathellama
Cleaning up the watercolor drawer: ROYGBIV!
Crow for Tuesday. Watercolor is so liberating. #watermedia #watercolor #birdpainting #seattleart #crowmagic
I have been unsettled about my art lately, and I've given myself some time to just play around. I miss representation sometimes, and today I dragged out the watercolors for something that isn't abstract: one of my porch crows. #watercolor #seattleart #crowmagic
Some watercolor and drawing work of mine was chosen to illustrate C. Clute's fiction, "Jessie's Crayons" in the fall issue of After Happy Hour Review. I'll post a link in the bio. #watermedia #afterhappyhourreview #litmag #seattleart
Two different versions of an artist book I'm working on. I'm particularly happy with the cover on the first one! The geekery: I did a series of negative space drawings, carved them into linoleum and used them to hand-print the pages, along with collage, metallic foiling, and other techniques. I used random cut-and-shuffle on a poem I wrote about negative space and added it in using inkjet and block printing. One of the books is a modified codex with multiple signatures and the other is a sort of double accordian. #bookart #artistbooks #printmaking #seattleart #poetry #seattlearts

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