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I've been working hard on the show the last few weeks, but I have taken the time to meet some friends for sketching several times recently. It's good to get back to the immediacy of watercolor after prolonged time doing prints. These sketches are from Crosstown (above) and the shady back deck of Memphis Pizza Cafe.
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WKNO fm kindly hosted me again today (thanks, Darel!) on their daily Checking on the Arts show to talk about the Faulkner's Trees exhibition at Rowan Oak and a little bit about my newest book, a small paperback called Portal. You can click below to listen. It's always fun to get out and talk to Darel about my mostly solitary work.
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Every show I do I get a last minute wild hare to do some extra project to go with it. For WAMA it was doing an entire show catalog called Hints of Gladness. This time, with the show hanging on Monday, it was a much more manageable project. I had kept the artist statement quite brief, and I decided to typeset it and print a small edition of handmade ones. Most of the fonts I have are limited in the numbers of letters, but this Parsons 30 point set had JUST enough letters and was a lovely size to show up in a frame and hold its own space. It has the added delight of the fancy, super high ascenders (the "ls" and "hs" that reach up well above normal height), so I used them for the first line before going back to the normal set for the rest of the paragraph. It was a satisfying one day project, and this morning
I will get it in a frame and have it ready to hang with the rest of the show on Monday. I've also carved and printed a small gallery card for folks coming through the museum to pick up and have my information available. This is one of the handful that print two tone when I add a second color once the first is established. I love the variegated effect. I usually get three or four of these before the inks blend to a solid color again, so most of the cards will be a little less wild, but I always love these the best.
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I had SUCH a good time staying at this tiny cabin right by a small river. I sketched and read and sketched some more. It was perfect. Here's the second half of the sketches from my two night retreat.
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I've given myself two small vacations/exhales in the past month instead of the longer trip I had hoped to be taking by now. I've mostly been nose to the grindstone on the Rowan Oak show that hangs this month, but I did take two smaller trips recently to relax and exhale. The first trip was to a cabin just outside Mountain View on the site of the Herpel P.O., right along a small bayou with large stones sitting right down by the water. I sat out there with my sketchbook, journal, and book. I had every meal sitting by the water and watching the birds. And I walked up the quiet road with my sketchbook to visit more wonderful trees. It was heaven. This is the first batch of those sketches. I was there two nights and part of a third day, and I sketched a lot after doing so much print work and missing my sketchbook.
