Our grandkids are with us—Juni, 3 and PJ, 8. PJ and I like to collaborate on birds. I will draw a simple outline and he will paint, and tonight we did a blue-footed booby and a cardinal. I love the looseness of his paint strokes and the vitality they bring to form. I asked him about his signature chop and he told me it means “bird artist.”
Print with overpainting
This didn’t start out as a ghost print, but rather as one where the paper didn’t take the ink well. I liked the image and decided to try to save it by painting over it. It came out with a sort of medieval tapestry feel, or perhaps a tweaked flare of the early renaissance… The original print is below.
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I’m just beginning to play with the ghost prints… Not sure why I thought the combination and pastel and ballpoint pen sounded like a good idea, but it was fun to play with. And I learn as much from my disappointments as my delights. To be honest, I’m not yet sure which this is …
This is a ghost print from yesterday’s “dark night,” worked over with a bit of sumi ink on paper never meant for sumi…which brings an interesting texture to things. And in the end created a certain underwater look…
I think flamingos are more into tango than flamenco…
Monotype …
