Some Artworks for a Portfolio

Today I applied for a teaching position at American River College. The following artworks are submitted for a portfolio.

Little Miss Muffett

5x7" 2015

Mixed Media Collage using printed papers, permanent marker, water color pencils and acrylic paints on wood panel. This was created as a gift for my hairdresser's newborn.

Tools of the Trade

My "Tools of the Trade" series is a series of paintings and prints based on the various tools used in printmaking.

Baren Collagraph

18x24" 2015

Collagraph Relief Print plate made using chipboard, paper cloth, tagboard, corrugated cardboard and twine. Graphic Chemical Water Based Ink #1659 printed on Strathmore printmaking paper for an edition of 5.

Baren

7.5x10" 2014 

Edition of 30 on Mulberry paper.

Japanese Hanga Style Woodcut print using watercolor and rice paste as ink. The ink is spread by brushing the pigments over the woodblock using a Maru Bake brush; a specialized brush that looks similar to a shoe brush.

Brayers Monotype

18x24" 2015

Subtractive Monotype of my pallet printed using Graphic Chemical water based ink #1659 on Strathmore printmaking paper.

Twisted Etching Needle

19x24" 2015

Linocut Proof Print using Graphic Chemical water based ink #1659 on Bienfang 100% rag Marker Paper.

U-Gouge Chine Colle

18x24" 2015

Chine colle using PVA glue, tissue paper, gift wrap and Daniel Smith oil base relief ink printed on Rives BFK lightweight paper.

U-Gouge Relief

19x24" 2015

Plate was PVC. This is a proof printed using Gamblin Oil Based Ink on Bienfang 100% rag Marker paper.

First edition of 4 on Uhtrecht 100% rag Printmaking Paper.

Maru Bake

7.5x10" 2015 

Edition of 30 on Mulberry paper.

Japanese Hanga Style Woodcut print using watercolor and rice paste as ink. The ink is spread by brushing the pigments over the woodblock using a Maru Bake brush; a specialized brush that looks similar to a shoe brush. 

Maru Bake Monoprint

18x24" 2015

Additive Monoprint using oil paints, stand oil, Turpenoid Natural on Strathmore printmaking paper #300 for an Edition of 4.

Maru Bake

8.5x11" 2013

Acrylic Painting on Paper

Vintage Brayer

8.5x11" 2013

Acrylic Painting on Paper

Split Compliment Brayer

11x14" 2015

This is a three color print using three rubber plates.  The colors Red Violet, Yellow Green and Blue Green were mixed using Sax True Flow water soluble inks. The edition of 24 is printed on Strathmore lightweight printmaking paper.

Vintage Brayer

7.5x10" 2016

Edition of 30 on Mulberry paper.

This is a working proof Japanese Hanga Style Woodcut print. Pigments used were watercolor and rice paste as ink. The ink is spread by brushing the pigments over the woodblock using a Maru Bake brush; a specialized brush that looks similar to a shoe brush.

Palest Pink Puff

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015

Mixed Media Watercolor on upcycled food packaging (laminated cereal boxes using acrylic gesso to neutralize ph). Created using watercolor, watercolor pencil. permanent marker and sealed with acrylic medium.

Froggy With a Chance of Rain

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015

Mixed media collage using printed decorative papers, water color pencil, permanent marker and sealed with acrylic medium

Skull After Van Gogh

18x24" 2015

Subtractive Monoprint of my oil paint pallet on Strathmore Printmaking Paper #300

Another Skull After Van Gogh

18x24" 2015

Subtractive Monoprint of my ink pallet using Gamblin oil base ink on Rives BFK lightweight paper

Eight of Swords

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015

Inktense watercolor pencils and sharpie markers. It's inspired by the tarot card and a vintage circus photograph

The Magician

7.5x10.5" 2015

Acrylic painting on upcycled food packaging. It's inspired by a vintage circus poster and the Major Arcana tarot card the Magician and the tarot minor arcana Aces.

The Moon

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015

Miniature acrylic painting on 4 layers of re-purposed food packaging laminated and sealed with gesso. Inspired by tarot cards.

The Star

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015

Mminiature acrylic painting on 4 layers of re-purposed food packaging laminated and sealed with gesso. Inspired by tarot cards.

The Sun

2.5x3.5" ACEO 2015
Acrylic painting on 4 layers of re-purposed food packaging laminated and sealed with gesso.  Inspired by tarot cards.

Another Print in the "Printmaking Tools" Series

This is a photo of the next print in progress.  This is the printing plate carved into 10x10 inch plywood.  The image is of a Maru Bake, a brush used in the Japanese Hanga technique of printmaking.

The first edition of prints from this plate will be on 7.5x10 inch paper for a BarenForum.org print exchange.  I will, of course, print only a portion of the plate and I will be printing it using the Japanese Hanga technique.

This is what I estimate the print will look something like...probably a little lighter.  I fiddled with the contrast, color and brightness in the above cropped photo of the printing plate.  I haven't printed it yet...I'm still carving.

This is an underpainting of an 8.5 x 11 inch acrylic painting on water color paper.  I did this painting a year ago while interning in Mick Sheldon's color theory class at American River College.  I wrote about the project in this blog post: 

http://phare-camp.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-ive-been-up-to.html

This is the finished painting.

I so enjoyed making those painting of the tools I love to use that I decided to do a series of printmaking tools.  I'll do 6 woodcuts of tools based on the sketches I did for the color theory studies.

I then plan on using the carved plates as substrates to make encaustic paintings of the tools.  Who knows...if I haven't gotten sick of the project after that I may go on to make giant paintings of the images...

Last year I did a moka hanga woodcut of a baren...a tool used to burnish the paper during the printing process.  I wrote about it in the following blog post:

http://phare-camp.blogspot.com/2014/04/barenforem-exchange-60-prints.html

BarenForem Exchange 60 prints.

This weekend I printed an edition of block prints for a barenforum.org print exchange.  I'll be exchanging block prints with 30 other artists from throughout the world.  I try to participate in at least one exchange per year.  On a cold rainy day when I print indoors I set up on kitchen counter.  The counter's at just the right height to stand up and print. 

this is my test proof using Graphic Chemical water soluble ink on resume quality bond paper.  The lines were crisp and sharp and would have printed beautifully on the Reeves BFK light paper that I had planned to use.  But the ink would have taken too long to dry in the rainy weather we had this weekend.  So I decided to print them using the Japanese Hanga Technique.

This is result printing Japanese Hanga style.  I used Createx Burnt Sienna pure pigment mixed with rice paste and printed atop Black Ink's unbleached mulberry block printing paper.  I don't think this paper was sized so even on the smooth side the medium was absorbed into the paper, blurring the lines.

What I've Been Up To...

This semester I've been volunteering in a color theory class as a teaching assistant for Mick Sheldon at American River College. Painted a lot of charts in the very cool workbook Mick created for the class.  That's because he want me to do the class work as well as help out.  Mostly I try to pay attention to what he's doing when he demo's technique so I can observe good color theory teaching techniques.  Now I'm working on the last class project where we create 10 paintings of objects using the color theory learned in class to solve specific problems.   The first thing I did was to do 7 sketched underpaintings.  I used Conte and charcoal then used a brush and water to blend it.  I only did 7 sketches because we're allowed to do 3 of the illustration in the computer so I took some photos to play with Warholizing...  Below are the 7 sketches. Later I'll post the Warholized photos.

the first printing of the 2012 Holiday Cards

Started printing my holiday cards yesterday. Here you can see my set up.  There's a clear mat under the plate to protect the countertop.

I had in mind to print pearl white pigment mixed into white ink on top of ivory paper so that I have a pearl white field with ivory border that I can next print a rainbow roll of  silver to blue to violet to pink  snowflakes on top with some flakes breaking the border.

Unfortunately my Graphic Chemical water soluble white ink has yellowed so I got shimmery ivory on ivory...

I even tried mixing in some blue pigment to get a slightly bluish white and though the ink is clearly bluish it still printed ivory...

oh well I like the way the woodgrain printed with a tone on tone thing happenin' so I decided to go with it.  I think the rainbow roll will look cool on top...that's today's step...

to be continued...

An American Dragon in London, Barenforum exchange 51

An American Dragon in London

Artist:   Patricia B. Phare-Camp

Paper:   10 x 15” Mulberry Paper

Image:  13 x 8”

Ink:      Graphic Chemical Water Soluble Ink. Silver and Black mixed to make Graphite.

Inspired by the historically significant rubbings of Merle Green Robertson.  The imagery in this woodcut print is from an appropriated work of art located at the British Museum.  Rubbings from historic sites eliminate the need to desecrate another culture’s sacred temples to display them in museums…

Yaxchilan Lintel #15 is a 23.25” x 34.5” Mayan bas relief carving dated from AD 755.  It depicts a noble lady performing a blood letting ritual to call in a vision.  Wisps of smoke from the basket of burning blood soaked paper take the form of a “Plumed Vision Serpent.”  A god emerges from its mouth to give spiritual guidance to the lady Wak Tuun.  Mayan nobles often used hallucinogenic herbs to initiate religious vision and dull the pain of auto sacrifice.

FOR MORE INFO SEE:

Merle Green Robertson:

http://www.archaeology.org/0205/abstracts/merlegreene.html

http://www.sunofmexico.com/photos_galerie_mexique.php?action=affiche&galerie=22723562@N05&server=6081&photo=6064350386&tof=6064350386_4be39bedfb&mcle=yucatan&PHPSESSID=fd7a32b88e7d304045e0603d147ec768

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/50011098?rpp=20&pg=6&ao=on&ft=*&who=Maya&pos=111

YaxchilanLintel 15

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/y/yaxchil%C3%A1n_lintel_15.aspx

Tea Party Proof

The next step in the barenforum.org exchanges 49 and 50.  These are the keyline proofs.  I'm thinking of cutting repurposed stryrofoam take out trays for puzzle printing the color fields.

Desert Tea Party

Been working on some new compositions for a couple of barenforum.org print exchanges.  One exchange is to be 3x7" the other is to be a 3.5 x 2.5" ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals).  The 3.5 x 2.5 size for ACEOs is a standard.  The 3x7" size is a traditional size for a few of the annual barenforum print exchanges.  The images I'm posting are the ideas I developed into digital collages.  I've made a decision on which ones I'm doing...have fun guessing!

Exchange Number 49

Exchange Number 50