New etching

This is 10" x 7" approximately, printed from a 16 gauge copper sheet I found in the basement and cut to this odd but regular size with a hack saw. This was printed with block printing ink, but I didn't know until Lisa told me... it was really hard to wipe!

Colored Pencil Drawings

These are the other colored pencil drawings on grey paper I did a couple weeks ago. I'd like to make silkscreen prints that look exactly like these, but I have to learn how to silkscreen first!

Prints from Pickwick

I've been gradually working on several copper and zinc plates at home and at Pickwick Independent Press, and now I have several proofs to show. I'm always so excited to start new plates that I haven't printed an edition for any of these. These images are also on my website, clintfulkerson.com.

Drypoint, 7" x 4.5":

Same as above, reworked and reprinted:
Mezzotint, 7" x 4.5":
Etching with graphite colored ink, 12" x 9":
Etching, 8" x 6":
Etching, 9" x 12":

Coloring with Johnny

Johnny is my 7 year old nephew.

colored pencil drawing

I'm continuing with several drawings like this, growing geometric networks that look like cells or bubbles packing together. I'm starting them all similarly by laying down a triangular array and then building upon that grid in various ways using only straight lines without a ruler. I start at a single point on the paper and grow shapes to the edges of the paper, and I stop when I can't draw any more shapes without going off the edge of the paper. I'm thinking of the paper as an environment with a carrying capacity for life, and my little blobs are life. The edges of the paper are real boundaries. The paper is not just a window into some other world. It is the world. I think of it as a flatland ecosystem, and my drawn cells are some sort of dimension-challenged beginnings for life.

colored pencil drawing

peas pass the please

colored pencil drawing

colored pencil drawing

I'm beginning to use color again, and I like the results. I just don't have a very good pencil sharpener and I end up breaking off a lot of prismacolor pencil tips.

Patterns of Nature

I have several drawings in a group exhibit entitled "Patterns of Nature" at Åarhus Gallery, 50 Main Street, Belfast Maine, 04915

The exhibit runs May 6-30, 2010, open Thursday-Sunday 12pm-6pm

Opening reception Friday May 7, 5-8pm

Exhibiting artists are: Mary Barnes, Kimberly Callis, Ingrid Ellison, Annadeene Fowler, Clint Fulkerson, Kevin Johnson, Lynn Karlin, Mark Kelly, Richard Mann, Andrea Martens, Jonathan Mess, Ed Moffitt, Ben Potter, Abbie Read, Wesley Reddick, Willy Reddick, Rebecca Rivers, and Patricia Wheeler

Postcard image: Clint Fulkerson Entrance, 2007, ink and colored pencil on vellum, 6"x 5"