Hello to any who might still check in on me. It’s been months since my last thoughts were published! So sorry. Since my last post I’ve finished teaching one session of collage at Evanston Art Center, and am into the 5th class of the second session. Had a fun and interesting class on Saturday morning teaching image transfer techniques. Time being a factor we accomplished only 5 techniques: soft gel (or acrylic polymer liquid), clear caulking on paper or a non-porous surface, acetone and chartpac blender (xylene), and clear contact paper transfers. We set up for the first 2 and let them dry while doing the last three. My favorites are the clear contract paper for images to be used in an altered book or for cards, and the soft gel or liquid acrylic polymer for those 2 uses and for collages. With a black and white photocopy the chartpac blender made the blackest and sharpest transfer and the acetone took a little longer and the result was a softer look.
Ellen was over one Saturday to work on developing ’skins’ for digital transfers. We weren’t particularly successful in fact, but Ellen was taken by a couple of my pieces in the studio, called Avram at Avram Eisen Gallery and that resulted in the two of us driving down to the gallery on Sunday to take these pieces to him for his ‘Annual Flower Show’ and picking up one of Ellen’s purchases. The show opens Friday May 1 with a brunch for the artists on the 3rd. How many people do you know who can get lost with the ‘help’ of a map and a GPS unit?? I think Ellen’s map was OLD…it didn’t show Damen connecting with Foster which it does!! and the GPS kept telling us to turn left before we got to Damen, which we did eventually (just to keep it quiet). We finally arrived in the rain and found parking right in front of the gallery.
Then in June I’ll hang a show of collages and paintings of mine at the 800 (or is it 900??) Elgin building in Evanston. No opening for that one, but a nice space to exhibit (if I can find the address of course!!)
