Marsh and A Space

October 07, 2020

More monotypes! I have Akua ink coming today, which will had whole new dimensions to this experiment. Wheee!

Monotypes monotypes monotypes

October 03, 2020

When I was at UT I started out studying printmaking. Eventually, somewhere around the end of my second year, I discovered monotype printing. Monotype is often called “the painterly print” or the “printer’s painting.” When my teacher saw my excitement for the process she quickly suggested that I get my butt up to the painting studios ASAP. The next year that’s exactly what I did and I was swept up into a world of paints. But those monotypes haunted me and I’ve been wishing for a way to make them again for years. I never really thought about it hard enough to figure out how to do it myself at home without a printing press (turns out it’s super simple.) Until! I was recently gifted a set of Caran d’Ache crayons (thanks Momma and Steph!) and “monotype printing” was thrown into the little list of things to be done with them in the box’s insert sheet. Honestly…I haven’t been this obsessed with making something in a very long time. I wake up, I come in the studio, I experiment and print and dance little dances until hunger forces me into the kitchen for a break. Then, I come back and do it again until the dog’s little pacing visits force me into the woods for a walk-break. OBSESSED. okay. enough talk. here you go. these are all postcard sized, roughly 4.5x6 inches.

these two little outliers were made with actual water-based printing ink that I had lying around.

Beaver Pond. 4.6x6 inches. Monotype print.

I have so many that I’m sending them out as postcards. Do you want one? Leave me a note and we’ll figure it out!

xoxo, m.

Fading Rudbeckia

October 02, 2020

Taking a whack at Inktober.

Fading Rudbeckia. 5x7 inches. pen and ink on paper.

Beaver Pond Bog Boards

September 29, 2020

I’m back! I hiked 130 miles of the Long Trail and got a bunch of great material. So much of the trail is bog boards. I took the photo for this painting after a worn-out bog board very nearly sent me into the mucky half of a beautiful beaver pond.

Beaver Pond Bog Boards. 12x16 inches. Oil on paper.

Still in the Woods!

September 20, 2020

Okay. So. It turns out that hiking 13 or so miles a day, setting up camp, feeding ourselves, and having it get dark at 7:15 makes it pretttttty tricky to draw during the day. But! I’m taking lots of pictures, admiring miles and miles (and more miles) of forest, and getting some killer horizon views from these Green Mountain summits. AND today we saw a great big fat spotted salamander cross the path! The barred owls are singing us to sleep with their David Lynchian opera tonight. Here are two quick sketches that I’ve done.

Into the woods!

September 15, 2020

We’re hiking along the Long Trail in Vermont for ten days! I brought a few drawing supplies along. Here’s a quick drawing of our little home-for-now. :) Only 114.3 miles to go until we’re back in Massachusetts!

Scribbles, dahlias, dahlias & scribbles

September 12, 2020

Happy Weekend! Enjoy :)

Darts. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Pink Wave. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Fire God. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Moody. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Seeds. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Peach Fuzz Scribble. 6x4.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Flipped. 6x4.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.

Dark Star

September 10, 2020

More dahlias! I did this painting twice. The first one took me 2 hours and I ended up wiping the whole thing off. The second one took me 40 minutes and I feel much better about it. I’m learning how to draw with my paintbrush….finally. Painting small is such a different experience, here I’ve been struggling along for a decade with paintings too big for me to move alone!