Small oil paintings on view at Kimono Silks!

January 11, 2010

Small oil paintings on view at Kimono Silks!

My assistant, Timothy Pakron, sets up my easel and brushes and helps me clean up my messes.
He is an oil painter and has been helping me learn how to use this classic medium.

Monotypes are also done with oil but they are painted on plexiglas and then printed on paper.
It is refreshing to work on a new surface such as canvas and to capture the changing tide and light.
I have enjoyed working on these intimate paintings en plain air in my own backyard.

Eventually, I will work on museum scale aerial landscapes with oil on canvas.

My Exhibition is on display at 214 King Street

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Mary Edna Fraser Silk Batiks

Mary Edna Fraser has been dyeing silk for 35 years in the ancient resist medium of batik. 'Batik' is a Javanese word for dyeing textiles, traditionally made by layering liquid hot wax with washes of color. The oldest know batiks have been traced back to Japan’s Nara Period (718 – 794 AD). Often photographing from her family's 1946 vintage Ercoupe, she draws from aerial imagery to give a bird's eye view of the terraqueous landscape. She is the first generation to have fast film, satellite imagery and fiber-reactive proceon dyes. Mary Edna's large-scale installations and smaller kimono silks have gained her recognition as a modern master.

Mary Edna Fraser Framed Monotypes on Paper

Monotypes are original works of art that allow the artist to react to color and emotion very directly. The medium of the monotype is a unique form of painting favored by artists since the seventeenth century. Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Chagall, and Gauguin all explored this medium. Brushes, rollers, palette knives and various tools are used to apply oils on a sheet of clear Plexiglas. Paper laid on top of the oil painted Plexiglas is rolled through a press. Pressure transfers the image to the paper…thus a monotypes. A second piece of paper can be placed on the same, now almost paint free, piece of Plexiglas and run through the press again. The result is a lighter, different original referred to as a “ghost image.” The possibilities are as endless as the imagination. The master printer and artist work together to perfect a technique.

Mary Edna Giclees on Paper

‘Giclée’ describes the fine art printing process of spraying millioons of continuous tone colors onto specialty papers and canvas media. Giclée produces a high degree of image detail from an original digital file or scanned film using continuous tone technology and rendering deeply saturated colors and broad tonal values. Mary Edna has her photography done by Rick Rhodes then they color correct each piece on site. Her prints of batiks and monotypes are on fine watercolor paper in editions of 100.

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January 11, 2010