New Art Available on Etsy – Scarlet Turnips and Party City!

Welcome to June! The weather here in New Mexico has turned from crisp and clear, to thunderstormy and wild with late spring winds.

I’ve got a batch of new works available for sale in my Etsy shop, if you have the time to stop in and see what’s shakin’.

Scarlet Turnips is one of my newest; an original oil pastel painting done on Yupo paper. I enjoy playing with the way pastels run across the surface of the polyethylene sheet; the lush combination of oily and sleek provides a strange, almost watery effect which supplants hard detail. The result is a glowing work without hard edges–radiant and full of movement.

Yupo is quickly becoming a favorite canvas of mine and I’ve also seen outstanding work on Yupo paper by a variety of artists. I guess other people are as intrigued by that radiance as I am!

I’ve also been working with my Gocco printer (it’s a small, hand screen printing device made in Japan). Party in the City and All Roads Lead to the City are limited edition gocco prints with hand-embellishments from my new line of City types. I did the original cityscape using a bamboo pen with Chinese liquid ink, on rice paper. I used that rice paper sketch as my original and have created a range of Cityscapes as gocco screen prints, with hand-altered details.

It interests me that a static image (the city outline) can transform so amazingly with added details here and there–much like an actual city does as the march of the seasons changes foliage, streets, and homes.

Expect to see more of my cityscape gocco art in my Etsy shop very soon.