What the heck is an Aqueous Artist??????

Well it does not mean I am made out of water........
I classically trained as a painter, and found printmaking my senior year of college. Heavily involved with putting together my B F A show and graduating, I went on to graduate school to learn more printmaking. Collagraphs, (where the matrix is collage relief plate, became my thing). For many years my paintings whether 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional, were "painted" collagraph plates.

During my under graduate years , my paintings were HUGE oil paintings, non representational, they were executed by laying the stretched canvas in the studio floor, flooding it with water and pouring sometimes hundreds of thinned oil paint colors , which I mixed up in baby food jars, onto the flooded surface. Tilting the canvas, manipulating the paint with found objects, feathers, sticks, scrap card board, more water, more tilting (you get the idea) til "it" was right. I was the only painting major in the studio program that did not own paint brushes! (well maybe a few).

I was a big fan of Frank Stella (who recently has left us) and I still am.

Anyway, I had to wait a while on those paintings to dry!!!!!!!!!

THEN, in the 1990's I married Sweetheart, a Bookbinder. To help him with his work I took some formal training in that field. Book binding, alas, is not for me so I tried a class in what the Artisans call Marbling. WOW!!! after all these years, I found a method that lets my "float" paint, manipulate it with sticks and combs and found objects and contact print the "image" to paper or fabric,or wood, is totally non toxic, where I can make the work in 2 or 3 minutes, and it dries in an hour!!!!!!!!!!!!! More on all this later.

I have been thinking recently about re-visiting my big oil paintings soon, just need Sweetheart to donate part of his garage floor, which could mean moving a lot of his motorcycles and his Stuff.
Now Stuff and Motorcycles are sacred to men, I know this, if fact the motorcycles are sacred to me too, and as an artist Stuff is majorly important!!!! But Sweetheart is open to the idea, we just need to get the time to do it, AND BELIEVE ME Time in the Hood is hard to come by!