Carrie Repking Works in Progress

"New Shoots from Old Trunks"

2011-05-31T20:01:00.000-07:00

I'm in an art group of six women called ArtSpeaks. We are having our 6th yearly exhibit at the Pinnell Gallery in Fallbrook, opening Saturday, June 4th. Pinnell Gallery is a traditional, representational gallery, so I'm showing eight paintings based on events, people and places from my life. Here's a few:

Lyle in Style

Black Cat x 3

"Infant"

ACEO's

2011-03-30T21:22:00.000-07:00

I've been making some little original art trading cards and selling (some of them) on EBay. Watching to see if people are bidding is addictive. Right now there are seven nudes up for sale. They seem to sell the best. The weirder abstracts are ignored.

Mighty Cat

C'Mere

Toadstools and Flowers (sold for 99 cents!)

Toad

Infant (sold)

By the Numbers

2011-03-01T21:57:00.000-08:00

I did this sketch of four women shoppers at Solvang years ago and then did a couple of paintings from it. I cleaned out my studio last week (HOORAY!) and found it. I decided to play with it on the computer. I like it reversed as a negative in the second picture below. The numbers were to mark the different values for the paintings.

Hidden Bird

2011-02-08T22:39:00.000-08:00

This darkish collage was in a post awhile ago. Looking at it, I noticed a little bird in the lower left corner. I didn't draw it--the image just came from scraps pasted together. So I cut the bird out, enlarged it, pasted some other collages together, put the bird image on top, then outlined and colored everything. The tail feathers need help.

Doodling

2011-02-04T10:07:00.000-08:00

Been a bit low on energy lately, so I've been combining hand doodles with old cut-up collages into small images. Then I scan them and print them out larger, and using watercolor pencils, color them to my liking and get the results like the two above.

I took two collage fragments and combined them by cutting and pasting--

Into this:

Since I didn't think that worked, I played with the above image with
a digital photo manipulater, making it different colors, and then put them all together like a kaleidoscope.

Comedy of Errors: One plus Four equals One.

2011-01-19T17:17:00.000-08:00

I was working on a collage that turned into a overworked mess, so as anyone would, I took a match to part of it. It burned faster than I expected and the photo emulsion smelled bad. If I burn something again, it will be outside with a fire extinquisher. Anyway, after everything cooled, I pasted the remnants together and scanned it. I've been working on this image on the computer, adding colors and combining other images. Today I decided to just make a primarily black and white piece. I printed out the amoeba image below.

Plus the edge of some hollyhock leaves from a drawing.

Plus the black and white reverse image of another collage.

Plus this micro-section from the burned piece.

Cut, pasted, changed around and so far here's the result.

Possibly a little too dark?

From monotype to goats on the range

2011-01-13T10:16:00.000-08:00

This was a washed out monotype that I added several image tranfers to with gel medium. The process requires rubbing off paper from the back of the image. This frequently leads to holes being ripped into and through the original paper. Not good.

I rotated the paper and pasted more images (including the goats) on top of the holes. The results were dark.
I decided to scan it into the computer to see what I could do. This is the somewhat lightened result.

After some photo-manipulation I came up with this which I like even though there are still some whitish remains of rubbed off paper. I may crop it a little.

It's hard to know when to stop. I'm still playing with some of the images cropped from the above collage.

Negative goat

Sepia goats

Cat, Kilt, Brother collage continued

2010-12-28T15:44:00.000-08:00

These are the results I'm happiest with now after re-working with the images from the previous post. I rearranged, cropped, pasted, added color, removed color and generally spent an afternoon happily obsessing. Also cropped some more abstract images I might make into larger paintings.

Lyle

2010-12-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

I've been missing my brother this holiday season, so I decided to work on the image of him in his kilt. First I transferred (process only worked partially) a photo of him over a muddy monotype, then pasted on some clippings of a cat, his face and him as a baby at La Jolla Shores. Didn't like this, so cropped it. The faint
transfer of his face is spooky.
Then I photo-edited some other images, printed them, chopped them up and made a collage of the black cat, baby Lyle and the kilt. I colored the image of him at the beach and when I scanned it to post here, it looks like he has red streaks on his body. I like the collage better in black and white. I'll have to stare at these for awhile to see what, if anything, to do next. Right now the lower left hand side isn't working for me.
If you click on the images, they will enlarge.

I also juxtaposed the baby image over the kilt image with some photo manipulation and came up with this odd result. I think Lyle would be amused.

Seven Beginnings

2010-12-10T22:28:00.000-08:00

The colored ones are photo images I printed over some muddy monotypes. I used a digital ground on the monotypes so they would absorb the printer's ink jet. The fourth one, a black and white collage of a family photo was done by gel transfers, printed pasted photos covered with a transparency film with the image printed on it again. The last one is chopped up photo paper from a photo of poppy pods. (I expecially like the paper clip I left in while scanning it) I'm going to be gone for a week and hope to work on some of them during that time.

Photo manipulation (mutilation?)

2010-12-08T19:26:00.000-08:00

Using a computer photo editor I cropped the image, flipped it around, and then printed other photo images over the first one. Will probably continue now with paint, ink and papers.

Collage image mess

2010-12-08T18:13:00.000-08:00

Sometimes the challenge of creating collages is to pull them together so they work (or not--I have my share of doomed projects). The one pictured here is one of nine I'm currently working on. I think we would agree it isn't done yet. I'm experimenting with image transfers. Some of results are Frankensteins.
I'll post the process of the work as I go along.