A combining of the Morning shards with the Belly series

smoke and wax on broken plate 1.4.17

10.24.16, pastel on maroon ColorAid paper

10.21.16 Even if you have one hour work as if you have all day; pastel and galkyd belly

Pastel Belly 10.17.16

 Graphite and Oil Pastel Belly 9.20.16

Graphite and Oil Sticks Belly 9.19.16

Pencil and Elmer's Glue Belly 9.14.16

Graphite and Elmer's Glue Belly, 9.9.16

9.8.16 Craypas and Graphite Belly

Winter Light

12.21.15 Oil stick, craypas and graphite on bristol, 9x12"

Who Measures, Who Owns 10.15.15 Mixed Media on Linen

Before the shower

5.13.15, oil stick and graphite, 9x12"

Saturday morning.

5.2.15, oil stick, pastel, graphte and turpentine wash, 9x12"

I realized again recently that I didn't recognize my body when I saw it in the mirror. Worked until the workers came back to start their hammering outside my bathroom window....

4.30.15, oil stick and graphite, 9x12"

It's been a while since checking in with my body.   Which is a kind of unbelievable fact.

Pinstripes, graphite, concealer and oil stick on bristol, 9x12"

2.2.15, oil sticks and graphite, 9x12"

This morning I was thinking a lot about negativity of varying sorts and had to look again at my aging body. After working a bit I thought about it then as this belly 14 years after bearing 2 children. I thought about filling the page with that. 

1.26.15, charcoal, wax and oil sticks on polypropylene

continuing to work with wax with graphite, for the way in which it is so close to the transparency and warmth of flesh.

1.6.15, graphite and wax, 9x12"

12.30.13, charcoal and wax on tracing paper, 14x18"

I've been interested in exploring wax with my drawing and painting, ever since seeing a series of sculpture by Medardo Rosso, who used wax as a surface to his pieces.   The skin-like sense is extraordinary, and reminded me of how I consider paper and canvas or board to be like skin, with both sides, an inside and an outside, interacting.  

12.17.14, Before The Shower, graphite and wax, 7x8"