TODAY'S FEATURED POST
be loose, be bold and be yourself.
I spend the most part of October traveling in Europe for different art shows. A week in Portugal for the fantastic THU 2024 event, a short week in Turin for the View Conference and a unforgettable week at Lucca Comics and Games in Tuscany. During those weeks I did a ton of portfolio reviews and talked endlessly about art, my own, my colleges art and just about art in general. And I was thinking about…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Rabbit Moon: Painting on copper
August 27, 2024 - This month I thought I'd take y'all through my largest copper painting to date, Rabbit Moon. The first thing I did was to do an exploratory work on Duralar to nail my drawing. Here is a video making that piece. I had the foresight to scan the above work when it was just a line drawing. I had the line art printed in reverse on mylar to the scale of my 18x24 copper sheet. Laying it face down on cleaned copper, I ironed the back of the mylar, and ta-da, it transferred the toner-ink to my surface! You have to do this with a laser printer, inkjet will not work with this method. It will usually not transfer perfect, and I fix the drawing with FW Acrylic ink and embrace the texture of the…
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