Kinetic Art

 Kinetic Paintings are one of a kind paintings that are a combination of two originals.  I start with a pencil drawing of what I want the middle view to look like.  With this drawing as a guide, I create the two individual paintings on Clayboard which is a time consuming process of painting on a clay surface and cutting details with a knife. After the two originals are finished they are sawed into vertical strips on a band saw, then they are assembled on angles and the edges are beaded. There is a different design in each original that can be seen from an extreme side view.  There are a total of four views of the Kinetic Paintings; Left side, Right side, Center and the beaded edge.

Clayboard or Scratchboard
 

Kathy has moved the medium of Clayboard (also called Scratchboard) beyond the traditional black and white into full color.

Limited Edition Prints

GICLEE (ZHEE-CLAY) 

   Like offset lithographs, my giclée prints start with an original painting. A transparency of the original is scanned into a computer, where it can be color corrected, stored digitally and printed out as needed . A series of tiny nozzles spray  the canvas, with a fine stream of ink.  Because there are no line screens involved, giclée prints have a higher resolution than offset lithographs, (about 1800 dots per inch) In offset lithographs each dot of color is encircled by white space but in the Giclee process,  inks are sprayed as droplets rather than dots; each droplet bleeds into the canvas creating more of continuous tone than dot pattern. The inks of a Giclee print have been tested for longevity and outlast most lithograph inks being used.  The prints have shown to last 85-100 years without noticeable fading, assuming certain care factors are followed, allowing archival museum-quality prints.