Virginia A. Spiegel

Still working away on what I hope will be a new series with seventeen small pieces done. Since I can’t show finished pieces at the moment, I thought I would share some of the materials I have out and about which I am thinking.

The funny part about this is that I could walk on over to Studio B (newly transformed) and paint away. But, no, I have to paint on my ironing surface on top of my good Teflon pressing cloth using the top of my distilled gallon of water. The hardest part of these new works is translating words cut from magazines into something decent looking. I am mainly using two pieces of Stitch-N-Tear laminated together with Misty Fuse and then tracing the words. The print is a linocut.

Raw materials - painted and screenprinted fabric.

Next step: water soluble wax crayons, colored pencil, ink, and graphite.

I am still quite interested as each piece is a challenge and I am finding a theme running through the artwork that I hadn’t expected. My working title for the series reflecting this theme is from one of the source collages, “Like You Give A Damn.” Hey, I do.

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