Driven to Abstraction Diary

Part One: the ’80’s, 90’s, 2000’s

Wow, that’s a long time! I’ll make it brief

“Sunset I” airbrush – not photoshop 🙂 on paper 1980’s

Abstract drawings to limber up for lost wax casting

charcoal and conte crayon on newsprint
graphite on newsprint
graphite on newsprint
bronze brooch created from an exercise where I made a model derived from another student’s drawing 1994

Renderings as a Jewelry Designer for Precious Metal Manufacturer

Earrings and Pendants in 18k gold with diamond pave painted in gouache on paper. 1999

Fabricated Metals and lost wax castings – 2000 to 2017

Sea Pendant
Sterling Silver Earrings with Fluorite Drop
Abstract Ring
Freelance – Spinner Ring
Bell pendant
dot dot dash
Sinewy
Pinkie Ring/Pendant
Snake Ring
Snake Ring 3/4 View

Diving into Abstraction again . . .

Karen Rand-Anderson “Diving into Abstraction Workshop” Demo

In 2017, I had the pleasure of taking a workshop at the Providence Art Club with painter Karen Rand-Anderson titled “Diving into Abstraction”. Eyes closed drawings were part of the direct response to the media and paper close at hand. It reminded me of the sketches I did a long time ago when learning model making. Seemed like a full circle back to this class and I was very grateful for the trip!

“FIRE” mixed media on paper
One of the first exercises I did in Karen’s class.

Part two follows with more about the role of abstraction in fine art, design and technology where 3D software and animation is an essential tool as a graphic artist and chaos is happening with JavaScript!