A few weeks ago I attended a class in sequencing at the River Gallery School. Sequencing is a technique developed by Ric Campman to add freedom to artistic expression. According to the instructor, by doing three small pieces at once and using wax and paint and finger movements rather than brushes, the artist’s usual constraints play a lesser role.

I did find it liberating. The underlying wax layer made it easy to keep moving the paint and translucent colors kept the image bright rather than muddy. My last step was to scrape off some of the paint with a sharp wooden stick and a knife blade. This led to surprising effects as the colors on lower layers were revealed.

Here’s an example from that session.       Some people have have seen cattails in the foreground.

In my next post I’ll show the results when I went back to my studio and worked on three pieces at once.

This is Kittywhiskers urn made by throwing colored porcelain and then carving into the surface to reveal the striations. In the week before she died I pressed her paw into the clay so that she has her own mark in it (on lower left raised area). The glass kitty knob is made by BWA member, Marta Bernbaum. The glass has some of Kittywhiskers ashes rolled into it. Our dear kitty passed away on March 21st at the age of 19 and we now have this urn filed with her ashes (after scattering some) to remember and honor her by.