Actions and fossils

This weekend begins the auction events surround the fundraising for Museum of Northwest Art, Sapphire Dream, culminating on Saturday, May 30, 2026. Below is my contribution to the auction from the series, The Book of Shadows. This includes images of fossil trilobites from the Burgess Shale, Field, British Columbia, Canada. I made rubbings from the trilobite bed on Mt. Stephen during a trip there over 20 years ago. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).

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Here's a link to the catalog: https://e.givesmart.com/events/Okf/i/ and this work is #143 in the silent auction.

We attended the May 15 preview for the work including artists, contributors and friends of the museum. More updates are to follow. Please consider a small donation to this regional art museum with an extensive teaching program if you don't participate in the bidding.

What I'm working on:

This continues the series, The Tempest in the Book of Shadows, which I started in 2021. Inspired by Shakespeare's late play The Tempest, here's a link to the post from 2022:

Deep Water: Fossils in the Book of Shadows

The works draw from images of fossil diatoms and crinoids, and evoke the profound changes to our oceans and bodies of water with climate change.... I’m titling these from deep water and storm imagery of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.…

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Since the earlier post, I've been able to get paint with indanthrone blue or anthraquinone blue in convenient formulas such as airbrush concentrations and fluid acrylics (I don't use airbrush, but it's concentrated and easier to mimic watercolor pigments and inks). The last post, from November last year includes Blake's Crinoids, and Crinoids Mirrored uses a reverse image of the original plate.

I'm working on a welcome letter to new subscribers. I promise!