From my recent adventures into the art of making stained glass.
The bird shape was painted on the amber colored glass and then fired. Note the horizontal fracture as proof of my amateur status — I broke the piece while trying to trim it to fit the overall design.
Still sort of pretty, though.
I know I’m beyond tardy in posting these, but better late than never, eh? These are a selection of photographs I took during the trip home from West Virginia. Yes, many of them are heavily photoshopped — some are not. Why? Because I found the originals to be exceptionally boring.
That, and it rained almost the entire time.
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A collection of crops from small acrylic & ink works on paper. Most are fairly recent, with the exception of the landscape done in ballpoint pen. I found it scrawled in an old sketchbook so there’s no way to date it accurately, although I’d guess it’s at least 5 years old, if not more. Very typical of the sort of nonsense I would doodle in the margins of class notes.
Yes, I know they’re whimsical little things. Even nihilists can be whimsical.
Sometimes.
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But which one?
Hard pressed to find any signs of the turning of the year, I ventured outdoors — only to be met with a surprising lushness. Butterflies in mid-November? What the hell?
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Well, here’s the first little bit of press from my show, As the Crow Flies, taken from here:
Acrylic paintings by Jennifer Rusek are on display through Nov. 23 at the Della Brown Taylor Gallery, Davis Fine Arts Building, West Virginia State University. Call 766-3196 or visit www.solocrow.com.
Granted, I’m all the way down at the bottom of the page, but hey, it’s a start, right?
The diptych pictured above (4x8ft) is entitled, Crow Takes a Holiday, and is currently on display at WVSU.
