Author: Hggns
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May already! This is a very busy time of year for me even without a day job, have no idea how I managed it with one. This post will be a hodge podge just to let you know I’m still breathing- I’ll shoot for a longer post later this week. First, thank you to Conor…
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The Cruelest Month?
I remember being bored at times back in January/February, when it too cold to go out, and I would prowl through the shelves looking for something new to read, or re-read. Now, in wet, gray April/May, with the workshop, and the show at Open Press (opening tonight!), boredom is not a problem. It’s been a…
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Pot-Boiler
Not sure how I ever found time for all this stuff with a day job! April is always a little frantic compared to the winter months, though. My monotype workshop at the Art Students League has definitely taken up some hours in prep time, for sure. The artists themselves are very fun to work with;…
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Under the Big Sky
Above, a nice landscape by Ron Zito, from my monotype workshop Tuesdays at the Art Students League. Ron hasn’t done a whole lot of monotypes, but is an accomplished painter, and he understood immediately that gesture and atmospherics will get you a lot more when working with ink on paper, than detail. I wish I…
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First Day of School
The Grant Street School ( above, now the Art Students League) is a Richardsonian Romanesque building not far from the Mayan Theatre. It may have been designed by Edbrooke, I will have to check on that. When I arrived in Denver in the 80’s, it had already been decommissioned by DPS and was being rented…
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Preview
The first class will feature an introduction to my thinking and philosophy about the obscure medium of monotype, as summed up by the workshop’s title: Spontaneous Graphic Textures. That is, many seem to approach monotype as a painting or watercolor, but the process seems capable of so much more. I’ll do a demo that emphasizes…
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I Like Having You Guys Stop By
My new browser actually allows me to comment in the comments section. My class at the Art Students League has met the minimum enrollment for it to be scheduled. Life is good, people! To celebrate, it’s Easter Egg time. The next 10 people who click “follow” are in a drawing for a print (those who…
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Millions of Monkeys…
…are, as we speak, whompin’ away randomly at millions of surplus, “Front Page”-era Remington typewriters (two or three per simian, typewriters are cheap! free, even) in a warehouse not far from the dark, 70’s chintz of Herb’s Hideout on Larimer, where Jack Kerouac once roamed looking for meaning in Denver’s tenderloin, poetry to match the…
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Lines of Departure
I may have posted this one before; it’s actually from late 2009. But this is a professionally done shot, so I think it will look much better. There were two layers, or “drops”. One for the yellow and blue/gray of the sky, the second for the black in the foreground. We’ll look at what can…
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Rebel Without a Caucus?
It remains far easier to obstruct commonsense reform on Capitol Hill, than to bring it to an actual vote. Though I’m hopeful that the Health Care Bill will pass, I’ll admit that it’ll be a relief just to see some resolution. A yes vote, for most Americans, means moving on to the process of evaluating…
