New Hooked Wool Drawings

2016 #1, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.

Sometimes when I make a new group of hooked wool drawings I am interested in having a similar theme in all four pieces; at other times, as with these works, I aim for variety. In #1 there's an illusionistic painted form circling a solidly hooked rectangle.

2016 #2, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 12 in.

Paint and wool describe shapes and a dividing line.

2016 #3, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 12 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.

The solidity of hooked wool shapes surround a thin painted one; but that pale yellow arc has been accorded some presence by the shapes around it.

2016 #4, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 18 x 15 in. 

Two outlined shapes wobble atop a painted one. These pieces are a balancing act: of color and shape, and the weights of forms painted or in the low relief of wool loops.