Alcohol Inks
When I moved to North Carolina in 2008, I continued my work with watercolors. However, as my hands began to shake, these were difficult for me. And so I took an alcohol ink class with Karen Walker. I found these allowed me to be spontaneous.
I used a blow dryer to create what I called Bursts. My colors were bright and I enjoyed learning how I could use these inks in different ways, while still allowing the inks to “do their own thing.”
I also took classes with June Rollins and later with Alexis Bonavitacola. It was with Alexis that I learned to use compressed air.
In 2020 I used all these methods, and I began to add mixed media into the alcohol inks. And I used alcohol inks in some of my mixed media.
I learned a lot from doing inks. I learned to be myself.
Johnny’s Home. Alcohol ink and mixed media, 11 x 14 in.
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My brother John Webber Buell lived in Southwest Harbor, Maine where my parents had summered with us as kids. The painting’s mixed media has shells from the near the dock, and from the steps, flowers that grow up top, and rocks and sand and mudflats, and of course some seaweed.
Hearing You. Alcohol Ink and mixed media, 12 x 8 in.
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When I painted this originally I thought it was a flower. But the more I looked at it and turned it around and around, I thought perhaps it was hearing something. Part of the texture is made from texture paste and sand.
Seawall. Alcohol ink and mixed media, 12 x 9 in.
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