Oct 19
I did this shrine earlier this year, in late spring, at the same time I did the copper queen shrine. I’ve been heavily influenced by Laurie Mika’s work, and I love her icon faces, even though I don’t much like using other people’s art in my work. So I decided to sculpt a face out …
Jun 04
I think my original intent was to cut these birds out afterwards and paste them onto another piece of paper, but I never did. The feet are always problematic. I’m not even sure what kind of birds these are. A jay and a…something. I altered the colors based on “inks that I own that aren’t …
May 18
This postcard turned out a lot better than some of the others, and I love the orange color of the ink. I’m not sure the Tim Holz background paper really adds that much, however.
May 06
Drawing on maps was the thing that started me on this drawing phase. I’d seen some songbirds drawn with semi-translucent ink on maps as part of an illustration on a wall hanging at Ikea. So I started drawing birds on maps, then other things on other surfaces. Here’s a map, or, more accurately, not a …
Apr 29
I love foxes, and I wanted to have a picture that took up more of the paper, because the whole point of drawing on this sort of paper is to have the resist image show through, so I drew this fox. I’m not sure what it was standing on in the reference photo, but I …
