artAbility artists L-Z

• Cartoons
• Farm
• Lapwai Tribe
• Superman
• Volcanic Eruption

Cartoons

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is white with small green flowers and green dots in a pattern that looks like a bed sheet. In the top left corner is a triangle covered in light brown dogs lying on each other. In the top right corner is a circle covered in light blue and white flowers. In the bottom right corner is a red square with a pink and white floral pattern. In the bottom left corner is a diamond striped with light and dark green with three slices of watermelon over the top. In the center is a red heart with a yellow, blue, and white floral pattern.

Farm

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolor and marker on paper

Green along the bottom width represents grass and the earth. The rest of the piece contains a blue-gray background. At the center of the piece is the house (or barn) figure. The base of this figure is red and pink. The roof of the figure is black and turquoise. On both sides of the figure there are shapes that represent trees. They are oval shaped and have a brown base with a green top.

Lapwai Tribe

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece features a thick layer of white plaster over a rectangular canvas. The majority of the canvas is covered in a large, arching rainbow, created by dragging a toothed-tool through the plaster. The plaster gets thicker toward the top, creating deeper grooves in the rainbow. In the upper left corner, the plaster is cracked, which looks a bit like clouds. The rest of the sky is smoothed, with very slight texture. At the center of the rainbow, in the void, is a triangle with three lines sticking out the top drawing into the plaster with a finger. It looks like a Native American tipi. At the center of the bottom of the tipi is a smaller triangle, which represents the door.

Superman

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece is minimal, with a smiling face at its center. The face has red circular eyes, each with more concentrated color to the right sight, as if they are looking to the side. Beyond that is a red downturned triangle nose and a thick blue smile. Above the face is a red square with a skinny blue triangle on either side. Below the face is a single red oval.

Volcanic Eruption

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece emulates a volcano. The bottom is almost completely flat, but abruptly slopes upward into a tube-like structure. The texture is rough like that of a rocky cliffside. There is a divot in the middle of the piece where the “volcano” ends, and the “eruption” begins. The piece is painted a dark, earthy brown at the base. This transitions to a bright, fiery red as it extends upwards.

• Lizard Person

Lizard Person

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print utilizes gold, red, black, bronze and silver ink to create the likeness of a lizard with a square head, four legs with claws, and a curled tail. The lizard’s head is stamped in gold ink, with a blotchy tree rings through the impression. The head has a slight silver outline on the left side. The body is made up of a red pressings with light ink. This resulted in hundreds of small red dots that make up the body. The body starts off skinny and gets wider as it nears the tail. The left legs of the lizard are two stamps from the same piece of wood using golden ink. Each leg has three, thick silver claws sticking out from the end of the golden leg. The right side of the lizard has two stamps from a different crosscut using heavily defined black ink. These legs also have three thick, silver claws. The tail is made from three pressings of a single, small crosscut, overlapping each other, and slightly rotated to give the appearance of a curled tail. The rings are heavily defined in golden ink.

• Earth Plane
• Kristin E
• Santa Claus
• Sunflower
• Untitled
• Untitled

Earth Plane

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print uses gold, silver, black, red and bronze colored ink, applied with tree crosscuts. In the bottom left, a large, circular stamp of golden ink is connected to a long and skinny silver stamp on the bottom. There is a bigger wide red blotch on the top. The ink in the golden circle is fissured like dried mud, making small intricate patterns that get larger as they get farther from the center. In the middle of the piece are three bronze stamps from the same tree cut: one upside down with definite ink marks. The other two are flipped with fainter ink presses, toward the right. On the right side of the paper, there's a faint black pressing with good ink definition on the top and bottom of the stamp. In the bottom right corner is a fainter red printing with runny ink that looks like water muddled the image as it dried.

Kristin E

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape, almost completely straight up the sides and along its rim. It's covered in several textures. The main one is swooping rainbow-like sets of stripes made up of a couple dozen thin lines. They overlap with each other and lay the background for more textures and color. The bottoms of these rainbows are defined by lines of rectangular dots. A couple deep circular divots have been made on the piece as well as a couple feather-like imprints and clusters of dots. The artist’s initials are carved near the bottom of the piece. The main colors are navy blue, dark green and red. They blend into each other smoothly. Red is used more at the bottom and green is used more at the top. The blue is prominent throughout the piece. One of the circular divots has been painted blue and lined with red, making it look like an eye.

Santa Claus

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This composition uses two wood prints and red and black ink. The first stamp is a longer irregular rectangle. It has been used with the blank ink. The second stamp is a shorter near rectangle. it has been used with the red ink. There are four black stamps – three across the top of the piece and one toward the bottom left corner. Two of the black stamps are heavily inked, blending the tree rings together and making them barely visible. The other two black stamps were lightly inked, giving much more definition to the rings. There are nine red stamps. One is at the top between two of the black stamps. The others are clustered together, taking up much of the white space from the middle of the piece to the bottom. The ink application varies, with some heavily inked and others very lightly.

Sunflower

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The fabric has been used to create three flowers and a heart. across the top of the piece is a strip of white fabric featuring bunches of colorful flowers and green leaves. There is also a strip of yellow fabric featuring a woodgrain across the bottom of the piece. The rest of the background is a light blue. On the left, there is a red tulip with a straight green stem. The red fabric features very small white flowers. The stem features a green, leafy pattern. The middle flower is rectangular, angled in slightly toward the bottom of the bloom. It is made up of different purple and blue fabrics with random prints. There is a yellow heart positioned above, between the second and third flower. The third flower is pale pink, with four heart-shaped petals. It has a slightly curved stem made of green fabric with a large leaf off the left side of the stem The leaf is made of the same green-leafy patterned fabric as the other flower stems.

Untitled

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

The repeated design on this bag features three figures. To the left is a stick person with its arms raised. To the bottom right is a circle with three lines sticking out either side of it (like a bug). To the top right is another stick person with raised arms laying on its side. This design is stamped six times around the center of the bag in various orientations. The iteration to the bottom left uses purple ink for both stick people and yellow for the bug. The center-most iteration uses muddied yellow for all three figures. The rest are mostly brown, probably due to the blending of the purple and yellow inks.

Untitled

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This is made up of two pieces weaved together. The main piece is solidly colored with four colors: purple on the left, blue through the middle and then green on the right. There is a black splotch in the middle of the green toward the bottom right corner. The second piece uses a blend of brighter, warmer colors: deep pink, red, yellow and orange. When weaved, it created a checkboard pattern where squares of bright, warm colors alternate with the cooler tones.

• KC Pen Bowl
• Oceanview
• Silver and Red
• The Bloody
• The Mountains
• The X's

KC Pen Bowl

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape with a straight rim. The feature of this piece is a “KC” carved in capital letters in the center of one side. Surrounding the letters in a near square are lines of small square dots. These are echoed three rows deep on all sides, creating more near square rings They do not all connect at the corners. The “K” is painted a deep red. Almost the whole side with the letters and square dot rings is also painted red. The rest of the vase is mostly green, with some splotches of brown and yellow. Throughout the piece, the paint varies in opacity. It has dripped in some places, leaving dark downward squiggles.

Oceanview

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. It's almost entirely covered in scraps of the same fabric cut into squares, triangles and trapezoids layered over each other. They are all patterned like an ocean sunset, with painterly stripes of dark blue, light purple, pale orange and white. Most of them also feature some black silhouetted seagulls. In the top right and left corners are two circles sticking out from under the sunset scraps. They have a psychedelic paisley pattern made of deep gold, bright blues, bright pink, purple and green.

Silver and Red

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This sparse print uses silver and red ink. The composition is exclusively in the middle of the piece. Two silver stamps run in parallel: a short line near the top of the page and a long line along the bottom. The top line is wider and shorter, with lighter ink application leaving a faded look to the stamp. The bottom line runs across most of the page and contains much more ink. Thick silver lines curl along the stamp, with less ink at the edges. Between these two lines is a light stamping of red. In the middle is a thick, square stamp that used a medium amount of ink. The middle is heavily stamped, with less ink fanning out towards the edges. There are also smaller splotches of red ink dispersed around the space between the lines.

The Bloody

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece is nearly covered with scattered red rectangles. Some are splotchy and smeared. In the top right corner and down the left-middle are a couple patches of green rectangles. In the middle, there are two very faint blue rectangles. Scattered in an arcing slope down the left side and to the bottom right are several red, green, blue and brown dots. Overall, the piece looks messy and energized, with lots of random lines and smudges.

The Mountains

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

At the top of this piece, you primarily see the colors blue and white. The background is white and strips that come through the paper bring in the blue elements. It is a mixed blue. The primary part of this piece are the peaks at the center. At the base of the peaks, it's primarily red but as you get closer to the top it turns more orange and yellow. Running through the peaks are smaller peaks that are a mix of brown and green. These peaks also have spaces of white in them from the strips that run through the paper.

The X's

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece uses white plaster spread across a rectangular canvas. The design is filled with mixed lines going in all different diagonal directions. It is a mix of thick and thin lines in sections, creating a lot of texture. The lines were created by raking a tools across the plaster in all directions. This has created an abstract effect that offers smaller, more intricate patterns within the larger patterns.

• Flower Pottery
• Halloween
• Portal to Bikini Bottom
• Puppy Universe
• Red and Green Blood

Flower Pottery

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase with a wide, bulging bottom and a rippled rim. The bottom features several shallow divots all round the piece, while the cylinder is smooth. It is glazed with a mix of colors including dark blue, pink an orange. This has created a dappled effect. Around the bottom, the vase is gazed with dark green.

Halloween

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece was created using a thick layer of white plaster spread across a rectangular canvas. The plaster is thick enough to create a distinct pattern with texture; however, not so thick as to create deep cuts and valleys. The design covers the entire canvas and consists of a series of lines scraped through the plaster in all directions. It looks like claw marks. In places, the scraped plaster has piled slightly to give even more texture to the piece.

Portal to Bikini Bottom

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This was created by weaving two separate pieces together. The first features swathes of many colors, including brown, purple, green and yellow. At the center is a drawing of concentric squares getting smaller and smaller. They alternate in color from black to green to blue to red and repeat. The second piece is solidly colored with red, black, orange and purple, bleeding together. When weaved, it creates a checkboard pattern, with the drawn squares at the center of the piece, peeking through all of the different watercolors.

Puppy Universe

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is blue, rusty orange and dark yellow plaid. In the foreground, a light blue circle in the center stretches to all sides of the piece. On top of that is a slightly rounded triangular band patterned with fluffy yellow dogs in patriotic garb, fireworks and American flags. The center of the triangle is cutout and features a red donut-shaped ring patterned with delicate blue, pink and red flowers.

Red and Green Blood

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This bag is covered in red and green rectangular stamps. Toward the top are some solid red shapes. Directly around that are some solid vibrant green shapes and some shapes that blend red and green. Expanding out from there to the sides of the bag are more shapes with blending, where the red and green have blended to make a light brown. In the center of the piece are three clusters of red lines about two inches long.

• Clash of Clans
• Fabulous Tree Ring
• Fall Themed Tote Bag
• Go Vandals
• Red and Green
• Red, White and Black
• Untitled

Clash of Clans

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This is a short, cylindrical piece with an uneven rim. The right side of the piece is smooth and straight up and down, with a mostly straight rim. The left side of the piece is more textured and curves in at the middle. This has resulted in a slightly bulging bottom. The rim is also uneven, dipping and rippling in places. The piece is glazed in dark green all over, with drops of pink glaze randomly over the top of the green glaze. Some of the pink drops have dripped, spreading downward. There are three letters or symbols carved deeply into one side.

Fabulous Tree Ring

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece utilizes only gold ink and two different tree rounds as stamps. Both are rectangular in shape. There are 17 impressions, which have been stamped in almost three even lines. The top line features six stamps. The middle line features seven stamps and third line features five stamps. The orientation of each stamp is slightly different as is the ink distribution. Some use enough ink to see the shape of the stamp clearly, with clear ring impressions. Others are quite light, with only the edges of the stamp showing up.

Fall Themed Tote Bag

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

The front of this bag is almost entirely covered in overlapping rectangular stamps of different colors. Most rectangles have several colors blended throughout them. The main colors on this side of the bag are red, orange, yellow, green and brown. The brightest splotches of green are in the four corners and the center. They are less defined by rectangular borders. The back of this bag is printed as well; however, it is not visible in the picture.

Go Vandals

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece was created by smoothing a layer of white plaster over a rectangular canvas. The left side of the canvas features a strip of texture created by dropping something on top of the wet canvas and picking it off. It is rippled and piled. The rest of the canvas features a smooth background, with letters drawn into the plaster with a tool. The letters are all different sizes and sit at a slight diagonal. They spell out 'Go Vandals' over and over.

Red and Green

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This was created by weaving two solidly colored pieces together. The first piece features a mix of speckled white, green, dark green, brown and black. The brush strokes are visible throughout and move in different directions. The second piece features different shades of red. When weaved together, the pieces create a checkboard effect, with the varying shades of red overlapping the darker greens and browns.

Red, White and Black

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The bright white paper peeks through behind scraps of fabric that are colored red, black and white. Some of the scraps have been torn and feature ragged, frayed edges. At the top, the largest scrap is a white fabric with grey polka dots. It also features coffee cups and vintage-style women with text that reads "Give me coffee to change the things I can and Wine to accept those that I cannot." Overlaying the left corner is a dark red fabric with a faint floral pattern. A large square of the same fabric is placed directly below that, covering the left corner of the paper. Down the right side is a strip of brighter red fabric with blue and yellow flowers. To the left of this strip is a black square overlayed with a white square. Below these, nearly at the center of the piece, is a strip of white and red fabric.

Untitled

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece utilizes gold, silver and black ink. A series of stamps have been made with three different cuts of tree rounds. The largest and most prominent has been placed in the upper right of the paper. It is a large gold, full tree round. The impression is darker in the middle, getting lighter at the edges with some nearly invisible. The rings are clearly visible through the middle. There are three long, rectangular stamps in black down the right edge, moving to the middle of the piece. The first two used enough ink to produce a clear stamp, with visible rings. The third is much lighter and only shows the outline of the stamp. There are three silver stamps moving up the middle-left of the piece. They are similar in shape and ink distribution to the black stamps. Down the left edge of the piece are six gold rectangular stamps. Some of these are quite light. Two are quite heavy. All show portions of the tree rings very clearly.

• Rainbow

Rainbow

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape. It flares out at the bottom and bulges a bit in the middle, creating a wavy profile. Half of the rim is straight across and smooth, while the other half plunges about two inches into a soft V shape. The whole piece is intricately textured. The main pattern is made of different cross-hatched sections which arc and swoop into each other. On top of that, straight lines about an inch long have been cut into the pattern, mostly running up and down or slanted a bit to the right. The piece is painted in thirds, with the bottom third a deep golden, the middle a muted red, and the top a stormy blue. In each third, the carved lines that create the patterning are much deeper in color. The blending between thirds is smooth. The rim and the inside of the vase are painted light brown.