When I was teaching at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Rebecca Woods and I lead a series of workshops called Raw Visceralia. These workshops featured a theme, i.e. touch printing, duality, etc. and occasionally a guest speaker. One of these was my friend Alan Clark, a talented painter from Eugene, Oregon.
Alan shared his painting technique with us, it’s a method that takes some practice but yields some fascinating results.
These are my experiments, augmented with colored pencil and oils. Most are in progress, I plan to update them as they are finished. I’m calling the series Seeds.
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