wetAsh

Often, when I want to leave a nice white border around my work I’ll tape it over with masking tape, and remove it after I’m done. However, since I work only when I have time and feel inspired, much of my artwork lies untouched for weeks or sometimes months at a time. This becomes a serious problem if the work has masking tape on it, since the glue from the tape will transfer on to the work or dry up all together if it is left on too long. The borders of the artwork then become covered in sticky and (when dry) yellowish gunk, ruining the work.

This is indeed what happened with one of my most recent works, one which I otherwise quite like. Now the problem is how to remove the adhesive from the borders without damaging the rest of the piece… |inline

I’ve added some artwork to the new Works in Progress gallery. There are some pencil and charcoal drawings, an alabaster sculpture that doesn’t look like much of anything yet, and an experimental sculpture in a Plaster of Paris and perlite mixture which turned out to be very slow to dry, taking detail well when wet, but very crumbly and fragile when dry. Maybe laquering it will add some strength.

I kind of like working in with this mixture, as it’s easy to shape while wet. And you can take your time to do it over days if not weeks, since it’s so slow to dry. But its fragility when dry is a turn-off. So I’ll have to see how it holds up when varnished.

At the last minute I decided to move my site to art.wetash.com. Please update your bookmarks.

I’ve added yet more pictures to the gallery for 2005, a very productive year.

I’ve added two new galleries, one for 1991 and one for 2002, along with some new paintings in the 2005 gallery.

The first set of galleries have been created at gallery.wetash.com. They contain a small selection of the art I created from 1987 through 2006.

I’ll be adding much more art in the days to come, so be sure to check back often.