"Submission Fee No. 79"

"Submission Fee No. 79" 6.5" x 6.5" Woodcut pressed into Stoneware, glazed Edition of 4 Pay what you want by February 20

This print is part of a time-based conceptual art project. Read more about it here.

INFO PARTICULAR FOR THIS PRINT: 

Institution:   Good Earth Pottery 
Venue Location:   Bellingham, WA
Opportunity:   FUNCTION: LUNCHEON juried show 

Eligibility: CERAMIC PLATES (no more than 8” in diameter) by artists in the USA and Canada
Potential Benefits for Artists: $200 Juror’s choice award
Notes: Juror is Kip O'Krongly
Fee:   $30
Deadline: February  20

"Submission Fee No. 43"

"Submission Fee No. 43" 
3" x 4"
Woodcut printed in glaze on a ceramic tile
Edition of 3
Pay what you want by Nov. 18

This print is part of a time-based conceptual art project. Read more about it here.

INFO PARTICULAR FOR THIS PRINT:

Institution: Atlantic Gallery
Opportunity: Juried Show: “Seeing the Unseeable”
Venue Location: New York, NY

Eligibility: Must be 18 and up
Potential Benefits for Artists: Solo show
Notes:  Gallery will take 30% commission on any work sold.
Deadline: November 18, 2019
Fee: $45 for 1 - 3 works.

$5 for each additional work, up to 5 works total.

"Imaginarium" Summer Fellow Exhibition in Wallingford

THIS SUNDAY, Imaginarium Reception: June 24, 2pm to 4pm

Duke Gallery at the Community Arts Center

414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086

Summer Fellows exhibit in the Duke Gallery of the Community Arts Center. The show will include all of the artwork for my newly released book "The Nautilus and the Ammonite", many works from my other book projects, as well as the debut exhibit of some of my new ceramics.

On view: June 23-July 20

Finished Rodent Pinch Pots

I'll get back to making woodcuts soon enough, though lately I've been really focused on the ceramics. Here's the finished results of those rodent pots I posted about last month.

Pig, Hawk, Kiwi, Frog

I've occasionally posted my ceramics on this blog (see dino pots and bird drawings on ceramics) and this is one of those days. Since there's no point in denying that clay has become a second medium for me, I had considered starting a second art blog. Perhaps something that mirrors this one like "Comments on Clay". But then I thought that's dumb. This is my art blog. If I branch out to beyond woodcuts (as I have with posts about monotypes, stone reliefs, and Sketchbook Sunday) then I branch out. "Words On Woodcuts" isn't just a description of the blog. It's also part of my brand as an artist, I suppose.

I recently finished four new pinch pots with drawings on them. I'm told they relate well to my prints, and I think that's true. Certainly in process. Both ceramics and woodcuts involve a certain amount of uncertainty that opens up possibilities for unique expression and "happy accidents" so-to-speak, as they both involve a multi-step process where outcomes are never completely certain. I go into projects with a general outline of an idea, but allow my intuition and the materials themselves to guide the journey to a final outcome that marries expectation with discovery.

Sketchbook Sunday: Frog, Rodents, and Flowers on Pinch Pots

I didn't draw in any sketchpads this week, but I did draw directly on leather hard clay pinch pots I made.

Finished Dino-pots

Anyone remember the dino-pots I started to make back in June? I finished them!