::: Progress - Progress - Progress :::

Hello art lovers!!!! - I am making progress, yesterday I framed all my work and it is ready to hang at the Manhattan Graphics Center. Bob ironed fabric panels and also Laura is ironing some of them (there are a lot). Today I will tackle the hanging of the panels problem, I am still not sure how, but as I said before I have an idea.
Saturday, "opening night" is approaching very fast.
Also today, just in time I did send out my submission for the Footprint Show in Norwalk. Please cross your fingers that my submission is going to be accepted and been shown.

So, I hope to see you at my opening this Saturday!

::: One More Week to Go :::

So, one more week until my show opens at the Manhattan Graphics Center, and I did spend another full day yesterday printing on fabric panels. I printed enough to fill the one wall in the studio. Now I just have to figure out how to hang them so they have different distances to the wall, to be layered and overlap. I already have an idea how to do it, I just have to execute it. Excitement is kicking in and I look forward to the opening.
Also the opening is one day before easter sunday, the holiday must have slipped my mind, but everything is planned and ready to go. I hope that people will come and have a look.
I will keep you posted.

::: Great productive weekend :::

Ohhhhh guys, what a weekend, the weather was terrible. Rain, rain and more rain mixed with strong wind. This was the right weekend to create create create! I've got a lot accomplished, 2 new prints for my show and I did print some of the plates on fabric, and it looks great! It is going to be a beautiful installation on the main wall. Exciting!

::: 3 weeks left :::

Hi everybody,
3 weeks are left until my show opens. How exciting - and scary, I still have lots to do. This weekend is a perfect day to do a lot of work, because the north-east is going to be very very wet. The weather forecast predicts lots of rain. I will use the time to be in the studio and work on 2 big plate, print them and hopefully have time and energy to start printing on fabric. - I will try to create "flag-like prints" for a special installation in my show ... there is just this little thing called ... time ... what is giving me a hard time. But nevertheless I will try to do it.
By the way, here is the invitation, so if you have time come by and have a look.

::: Snowy Day in NYC :::

It is snowing now the whole day ... but it doesn't stick. It is a great day to create/work on a new piece. My plates are ready to be worked on and the creative juice is flowing, even after a stressful day at work. My motivation is the deadline coming closer and closer to my show opening in April. I am still debating about an accent piece - I planned to print my work on fabric and let it hang at one wall overlapping each other. But I am not sure that I will be able to do that ... the time is running pretty fast.

We'll see!

::: I am on a roll :::

The show comes closer and closer and I am creating and creating ... I am on a roll, and it is no end is in sight. I am very busy at work, but I use my free time either to create new etchings (or watch the Olympics ... I love this event). I just finished a 2 plate/color Aquatint, and I am very pleased, it came out very nice. The size of one plate is 12" x 12" and the second one is 5.5" x 5.5" which is printed in the center of the big plate. - I did the size with a good reason, there is the footprint competition of Norwalk is coming up, and I am planing to send the etching into the race. Maybe I will have a second one ready soon ... the plates are prepared to work on them.

More to come soon!

::: Drypoint - here it is :::

So, here it is, as I promised, this is the drypoint I was working on for a long long time. As I mentioned in my last blog, I did print it yesterday and I am very pleased with the print. So look for yourself and let me know what you think.