End of the School Year

 Well, I had to set aside any major art production while making it through this first year of teaching full time. This piece was an old "unfinished" abstraction left over from my Paducah days.

 This will be one of the last large panels on which I'll be working. It was an attempt to revive a "water current" series from quite a while back.

However, this piece represents my new direction: simple "excavation" series (multiple layers of plaster, tempera paint, and dyes built up and sanded down) with layers of epoxy resin poured over the top. Each layer of resin has images and artifacts imbedded into it. I've tried to print on tissue paper to create a transparent or translucent fiber that disappears into the resin. Also, the dried resin layer readily accepts acrylic paint.

The only downside is trapped air bubbles released from small objects. Sweeping the surface with a propane torch has to be done a few times while the resin is settling in order to eliminate those air bubbles.