Drawings and Paintings on display at Southern Strain Brewery

The closing reception for my exhibit at Southern Strain Brewery is this Sunday September 18th from 2 to 5 PM. Many of my Climate Conversation Tree drawings will be on display. There is great beer from a new local brewery and a fun food truck. Hope to see you there. The artwork ranges in prince from $90 to $5,000. 

 

Southern Strain Closing Reception - Sunday, September 18th 2 to 5 PM

 

Join me for the closing of my exhibit at Southern Strain Brewery. Have a cold beer in the afternoon from 2 to 5 on Sunday afternoon September 18th. Hope to see you there. 

Seasons of the Stag Calendar about 90% complete

The calendar with the Stag in each of the four seasons is nearing completion. I am about 90% complete. I need some light fall colors in the black and white leaf areas. All are 24 x 18 inches, graphite and watercolor on paper. 

 This is lush, summer leaves and lillies. 

Winter with icicles and holly leaves. 

Spring with lily buds and leaves. 

 

Midnight Sun Silk Screens!

Alaskan Sun I began a series of silk screens and paintings of the Alaskan Midnight Sun at Arrowmont this summer. In the arctic summer, the sun rotates in the sky coming close to the horizon, but never actually setting.

The Mindsight Sun print at the top of this post is currently in an exhibit in Chicago’s Bridgeport Arts Center near the White Sox stadium. I layered three different screens. This piece and three others from the series sold before the exhibit in Chicago even began. Many more are available.

These silk screens are 10 x 10 inches. 

Silk Screen Trees at Arrowmont

 

It’s been a fun summer at Bosbyshell Art Studio. The weather has been hot, so I’m making plenty of Art. Good news! The McColl Center offered to extend my studio there for a second year, so I will be there through May 2023.

Silkscreens I spent two weeks at Arrowmont School of Art. The first week was devoted to silk screen printing. A few examples are below. I plan to continue the tree prints this fall in my McColl Center studio. This type of silk screen creates one print and one ghost print that I will use as a base for a watercolor painting. The silk screen print looks amazingly like a pencil drawing.

All the silk screens above are 8 x 10 on printing paper. 

New Storefront Website for Bosbyshell Art Studio

Bosbyshell Art Studio

Please visit my new storefront website! Kate McAlister set it up for me! It currently features all my drawings and paintings for sale at Southern Strain Brewery in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood in Charlotte. 

Stag Calendar of the Four Seasons in Progress

This is a series of images of a commissioned calendar of a stag during the four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. It is a combination of graphite drawing and watercolor paint. Above is the beginning of the Winter Stag. This series of drawings is a great take off of my current climate conversations tree drawings, yet with a surreal touch. The antlers become tree branches or limbs. 

Winter with icicles added. 

Color added to the wreath.

This is the Winter Stag at about 95% complete. 

Beginning of the Spring Stag. 

Lilly buds in the wreath and lilly and tree buds in the antlers / tree limbs. 

The above image is the Spring Stag 95% complete. 

This is the beginning of the Summer Stag. Lilly flower blooms in the wreath and many different leaves in the antlers / limbs.