I painted these four paintings for a showing at Lewis & Clark Law School. They are ink on raw canvas hung tapestry style. Size 4 feet by 5 feet. The show was part of a program highlighting art as advocacy. The highlight was a presentation by the world-famous animal rights photographer Jo-Anne McArthur.
I came across this pile of wood from the remodel of the Seaside fire station. I thought, maybe I could use this scrap blocking as a rough frame of a painting.
I’ve decided that most of my work should be ink on canvas. It took quite a while to learn how to use ink with a brush on rough, untreated canvas. I like the results I’m getting. What I like even more is the archival quality of ink on canvas. Paper is unforgiving. Canvas lives on nearly forever. Look at this small detail on a 5-foot by 7-foot painting. The shading is just magical. After setting the ink to make the painting archival, I rolled it up. Then, it shipped out in a mailing tube to its new home in Colorado. Russ
