Some oil works. I've been doing the underpaintings in red.

Float. Oil on panel.

Cyanotypes on fabric.

Quartz crystals and string.

White Vervain, Honeysuckle, and Gayfeather

Honeysuckle

Sawtooth Sunflower and Goldenrod

Goldenrod

Black-eyed Susans

Winged Sumac

Beaked Panicum

Foxtails

Foxtails, Daisy Fleabane, Goldenrods

Woolly Croton and Goldenrods

Sericea (invasive in Missouri)

An underexposed test strip made in indirect sunlight. I love how ghostly it turned out.

I also used the same transparencies to make wet cyanotypes, embellished with gold ink.

I've had plenty of adventures this summer, so nothing but gratitude here, but I miss the ocean bad. It's been 385 days since my last pilgrimage.

Devotion/Abalone. Oil on Canvas.

This painting was a test of my ability to paint iridescence. I also found myself bumping up against the limits of my focus - I had to complete the painting in several sittings instead of alla prima, which is the way I usually approach oil painting.

Devotion/Underbelly. Oil on panel.

I wanted to explore the texture of words (and say some things more directly), so I made a tiny zine of poetry and photography. I'm certain my literary friends could tell me what's wrong with these poems from a craft standpoint, but I'm a big proponent of just going for it, regardless of ability.

Anyway, a couple excerpts:

In other news, just trying to continue painting. I've been dealing with an overuse/mild nerve injury in my wrists ever since felting a bit too intensely at KCAI, which has made holding a brush uncomfortable. Luckily, it's improving, as I was able to finish this one today. I'm considering a series of moon snail shells in oil.

Another moon snail shell painting... oil on gesso board

Paddling out on Lady Bird Lake to see the bats' exodus from the Congress Avenue Bridge

Waiting in line for Leroy and Lewis BBQ in Austin

I can't resist catching people on their phones... as I photograph them with mine

It's raining men

South Congress in Ausin

The Blanton Museum of Art

I love these works by Eliza Naranjo Morse.

We ate at Kemuri Tatsu-Ya in Austin

A Texas Spiny Lizard we saw at the Zilker Botanical Garden

Mi Tierra Cafe y Panaderia in San Antonio - the most beautiful restaurant I've ever seen, anywhere

Corpus Christi

Pelicans

Mustang Island, Port Aransas

Graffiti in Dallas

 

We drove across Texas and saw so much in just a week - we spent time in Waxahachie, Austin, San Antonio, and Port Aransas. It's been a lot to digest. It all feels like a blur now that it's over.