I sketched this endearing personage on a walk today. Subsequently learned that it is a Racor switch.
Matthew Mattingly
Artworks, writing and contraptions
Monday, April 22, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Power plant
I've done this power plant a few times looking south from a ways up the river, but yesterday I found myself right opposite it, and did this watercolor sketch.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Mount Toby
A nice in just spring day so I biked up to Mount Pollux and did this watercolor sketch of Mount Toby.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
PCC Memories etching
I think this is the final state for the plate. Not that it couldn't be improved, but there are flaws that have been baked in from its inception and that will likely get worse with each trip through the ferric chloride. I've also done a lot of scraping and burnishing and filled some unintentional pock marks with epoxy. Next step is to work on the printing part - using inking, wiping, and printing to get a consistent, predictable result so as to be able to print an edition. I've learned a lot from this first attempt at a larger scale, complex image which I'll apply to the next one.
Moon, mountains, humans
We went up north to see the eclipse! I got a decent-ish shot of the totality by holding a phone camera filter (which didn't work with my admittedly old phone) up in front of my real camera. While waiting, I did a watercolor sketch of the mountains and some vignettes of my fellow humans gathering for the event.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
MICAfest 2024
M/others Institute for Collaboration and Art presents MICAfest 2024
MICAfest 2024 Art for Change: The M/others’ View
Visual/Performing/Literary Arts
I’m a Featured Artist!
80 m/other artists
May 1-31, 2024
Northampton, MA
Tickets for MICAfest are now open!
experiencemica.org/micafest-2024-northampton-ma/
My pieces, Three Women and Sunscreen, will be on display at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in the Peacock Room.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Abandoned golf course
Took the bike out to the abandoned golf course, which was partly flooded from recent rains, and did this sketch of ex-farm buildings, subsequently repurposed by a landscaping company. Actually the golf course is also in the process of being repurposed as a recreational area/solar farm, so may lose its wild and melancholy aspect.
Pen, inkwash, white gouache and white Sakura Gellyroll pen on toned paper.
4" x 6"