Author: Hggns
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Read Flag!
It’s Banned Books Week. Though it’s been a busy Summer, I’ve gotten quite a bit of reading in. Evenings and mornings have mostly been spent catching up on my reading on the back porch, thankfully relatively cool this summer. Here is what I’ve been reading. Rather than compile a comprehensive entry, which I’ve identified as a reason…
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Free Workshops This Fall
I’m doing a series of free workshops at the Denver Public Library again this Fall. They’re short, drop-in style intros to the basics of monotypes. If you are considering my upcoming full, 8-week workshop at the Art Students League, which starts September 16, then why not come down to Byers Branch, 675 Santa Fe Dr,…
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Video Killed the Monotype Star?
I’ve posted this on Facebook, but I’m putting it here, partially to archive it. It’s a 15 second spot produced by Colorado Public Television 12 producer Joshua Hassel as a thank you for exhibiting my work in their offices. Josh was a pioneering gallery owner in Denver in the 80’s ( he showed my work),…
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Healthy Future
I’m mailing a small check to Kaiser today. It’s a two-block walk to the mailbox; weather, H75/L43, P/C, no chance of showers. A slight bit of exercise, but essentially, it’s a very bland-seeming denouement to a tale that started, for me, about 5 years ago. I’m updating it now, in the interest of writing a…
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Waiting For the Sun
We haven’t had a winter like this in quite a while. It’s postponed a lot of printing days, though some have fallen victim to the Month of Printmaking event I’m working on, too. Our guide for that just went to press. I’m going to put up a downloads section on this site and put a…
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Living Large
Large work has been a priority for me last Fall, and didn’t happen quite as much as I’d like, so I extended “printing season” into December. I went down to Open Press ( a somewhat legendary print studio in Denver ) and started on 2 30×42” monotypes, one of which was completed, and will…
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Flour Power
People talk about architecture and often they refer to homes and offices. Industrial architecture is getting increased attention, though. This is especially true with waterfronts. Buffalo’s riverfront/lakefront areas are a good example. Where once heavy industry and commerce monopolized these areas, now urban planners and cultural custodians are moving in. There are complex issues to…
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Cultured Pop
Shorter, darker days. There’s actually time for reading, and the cat settles in for a lap snooze as I actually watch entire movies on DVD. I get my exercise on trips to the Library, and I’m combing through the PBS listings. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, which is as thought provoking as you’d expect, and another book,…
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Studio Doings
I’ve been layering Mylar stencils for transparencies, spatial density and complex colors. I hope for rich interactions of negative and positive space, with new visual textures. But a real danger can be overworked, cramped images. Planning becomes an issue. Good, rich color often involves planning, with transparency and color designs interacting in fresh ways when planning works…
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Mellow Yellow
Color reappeared in my new work in a large way. I had put increased attention on color in my summer evening monotype class, because I realized that most people at that level of experience anyway, can use a little background in color theory. Most artists at that level don’t have an intellectual program for color. They…
