LVA Open Studio Weekend is this Weekend

If you are in Louisville this weekend (November 4th and 5th), come by my studio and say hello! I am participating in the 2017 LVA Open Studio Weekend, a fundraiser for the Louisville arts community. I will have a lot of work there ant it will all be at a special studio sale price. You can also see the progress I have made on "Cor Liberum", my commission for Norton Hospital. You can stand next to the pieces and get the feel for how big this piece really is. I will have special pricing on Limestone carving blanks as well.

My studio is located at:

1807 Cargo Ct.

Louisville, KY 40299

"Birds On Canvas"

I have ventured into canvas! Well, kind of. No, I have not given up sculpture for painting. I had an opportunity to place some drawings in a show where all work had to be on canvas. I decided, rather than painting, I would laminate a giclee print of one of my pencil drawings to the canvas and then add colored pencil to it. It is rather unique. Check out my Available Drawings page to see this and other works on canvas.

New Drawings on My Website — Mike McCarthy Sculptor

"Moon View" - 8" x 5.5" white ink on black paper

"Compassion" - 8" x 5.5" stippled ink on paper.

I have posted some new drawings to my available-drawings page. (You can click the link to take you directly to the page.)

Most of the new drawings are stippled. I have been really into stippling lately. I love the texture you can get with just dots. The process is also very soothing to me. I can build up intensity a little at a time. It is very reminiscent of sculpture in that it is a slow process to get to where you are going.

Some of the drawings are on black paper. With these, I use white ink to create a very interesting effect. Like in "Moon View" above, the white ink and the leafless tree gives the feeling of a cold winters night.

I am also using a traditional black ink on some drawings. the advantage here is the the stippling can be finer. I can get finer point pens for doing this type of work. It takes more time because the dots are so fine, but I think it gives a softer feel to the drawing.

Check out the page and leave some comments about them.