lace remnant...

"lace remnant" monotype with chine collé, on Rives BFK, November 2009

this year's christmas theme!

for this year's Christmas card I revived a santa I doodled years ago on a note pad;

I scanned and positioned him in a snow land I staged by introducing a few old newspaper snowflake cutouts; eventually he became as real as I wanted him to be! While holding a Christmas tree, he carried my family's Christmas message/wishes to our loved ones. For our holiday party invitation and party favor card I used the snow flake background "scene", suggesting the peaceful landscape after santa has passed through...

Happy, peaceful and full of love Christmas to all!

"Ariadne's spool", monotype chine-collé, on Rives BFK

one more for today...

"from a window", mixed media on Rives BFK - November 2009

one more print from the "hide and seek" series; in this one the crochet lace work of my mother's later years played a role in defining the hint of the open/closed window of the composition.

hide and seek!

"hide and seek", mixed media on Rives BFK - November 2009

This is one of a series of monotypes I created about a month ago. Using rubber based inks on an acrylic plate I transfered textures from textile scraps, spontaneously adding/drawing linear shapes, thus creating the maze world for the subject's hike and seek game...

on a New York sidewalk...

all things I love!

Where else can you find treasures of this kind, so beautifully displayed, so very reasonably priced but in this fantastic city! A true sale of incredible books and prints, some of them old, some new and some very very old and all incredibly beautiful. Just the joy of suddenly being faced with this display, warmed up my frozen face after having been almost torn by the icy cold wind. Oh, how much I love New York!