Imagination--Paint--Computer--Screen

I had an idea



"art" and "water"



I painted on paper.



Took a photo of a brushstroke.



Tweaked it in Photoshop and dropped the surfers in.



Made a silkscreen, and printed the images.





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woodcut wave on women's tshirts

polar bear club

http://www.cafepress.com/kawanheegen.215335780



I made this drawing about 12 years ago, with the intention of making tshirts for people at the summer camp. One of the many optional activities run by Camp Kawanhee counselors every year is the daily polar bear swim at 7am. If a camper participates in 10 "polar bears" throught the course of the summer he is considered a member of the Polar Bear Club.

I reently rediscovered this drawing, cleaned it up, and sent it in to the camp's webmaster. He added some lettering to it, and now the image is available on all sorts of tshirts and sweatshirts. (see the link at the top)

And, for those of you who have an interest in seeing what this particular summer camp is all about click on the link below. It is a terrific general program that has been running for more than 85 years.

http://www.kawanhee.com/

3 different suites in 2 years

what kind of dialogue do these groups of work have between them?




similarities in the line work; a concentrated exploration of a path (implied or explicity expressed); tracing a route, much like my old race course maps in my training journal.






the acrylic paint mimicks the spontenaiety and immmediacy of an energetic, rapidly drawn gesture line.



the small size of the drawings and etching reflect an intimate meditation on the personal relationship between the waves, the river, and my journey through them, as ell as evoking a journalistic tendency to record the experience of both spontaneous revelation as well as a realization gained through concetrated long-term effort

Show installation view

Here is a page that has a photo of the installation at the top. You can click on the framed images in the photo and a link will be opened to a large picture of each piece of art.

http://artandwater.100waves.com/wavecycle.html

Audubon Society of Rhode Island

http://artandwater.100waves.com/wavecycleinviteweb.jpg



What a nice place to have an art show.



In the beautiful country, on a land preserve.



right on the ocean



Birdies!!!!

short cycle and transparency

These are the nine versions of this print, experimenting with some transparency and overlap, as well as seeing if I could give the impression of a cycle using only two images.

t shirts are fun to make

since I've been working with screen printing lately, I thought I'd make some tshirts for myself and some friends.






quick and dirty. one screen per image and lots of tape for masking and making racing stripes. There are more vesions than these two, but you get the idea.



this one is already available, in a slightly different version here as well as here



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new wave flesh sky

Crashing Waves

Silkscreen test print to figure out the registration.
Image is about 8" on 21" on
14" x 22" paper (cropped in the photo)