My first solo show, ‘Sirens Song’ is up at Passional Toys (620 S. 5th St.) and looks really good. Thank you Kim, (http://www.kimberleetraub.com/) for all your help in putting together this show!
The opening reception is on friday December 12th from 7-9 pm, come by and say hi.
Sirens Song will remain up until December 27th.
Been scanning and uploading my ‘08 autumn’ book pages the past couple days. Should have them posted on the site sometime soon. For now try these tasty appetizers:
Will have five pieces in a group show called, “Grand Small Works” at
One of the beautiful things about etching a plate is the surprise you get when printing a proof. You spend so much time working up the image but until you actually see the printed result, you don’t know for sure what you have. So I always like to print in stages to see the evolution or devolution of the etching as it goes. Here’s the step by step of Spirit Voyager; a plate I worked on this summer at Fleischer Art Memorial.
The first stage was getting the line drawing outlined with some aquatint additions.
The second stage there is some more aquatint; starting to develop tones, and the lines are etched deeper allowing for more ink to be held in the etch, producing darker lines. In the proof I came over part of the head with some white chalk to maybe burnish back some of the built up darker areas there, but as you’ll see that’s not what I ended up doing.
The horizontal lines I had developed behind the figure to suggest a shallow background, I separated a little more with the addition of a aquatint gradation. I think this adds a nice bar of focus concentrated around the middle of the face and makes for a more finished design.
I was very happy with the result of this image, especially being that it was the first etching I had worked on in several years. Unfortunately due to time constraints, I was only able to print this one artists proof, so hopefully in the near future I will be able to produce a larger run of this plate for sale.
More on that later.
Well the sirens are out, a different type of siren than mine; the ambulance. You see the Phillies won the world series tonight and this is the unfortunate result. Public drunkeness and extreme fanaticism don’t mix, hence I decided to stay off the streets tonight and in my apartment drawing. Here’s what I drew:
wine fishes
the big ones eat the little ones
Ok I’d like to sleep now people, enough of the car horns.
For the past few months I’ve been working on making new work for my first solo show opening in December at Aphrodite Gallery here in Philadelphia. Aphrodite gallery is located in Passional Toys (620 S. 5th St.) which sells fetishistic accessories and props, so in keeping with the tone of the store I decided to explore the nude and…stockings.
The show, which opens the second friday in December (12th), will be called ‘Sirens Song’ in response to a recurring motif I noticed nearing the completion of the body of work.
Gala and Pygy
First couple pages from a traveling pocket book I carry around:
This is also to acknowledge that I have a blog that I will be updating, like a plant needs water.
