To quote the great Mexican poet, author, and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz: “Every mark on a man’s face has a story.”
Story Masks In Gallery
Tag: D.R. Harris
Gryphon Porcelain Teapot
High-fire porcelain teapot. Original design, hand-built, and painted with a dimpled surface texture.
From The Deep: Hydroctopus
Hanging sculpture: Porcelain. Original design, Handmade and painted, high fired. 11.5″H x 5.5W x 1.5″D
Trombones & Figs
Flash fiction submitted to a Flash Fiction contest.
Trombones-and-FigsSelf-Portrait: Contrapuntal Man
Speedball 102/107 dip pens, Dr. Phil. Martin Black, Van Dyke Brown and White India ink and washes on 12×16″ Ampersand Claybord. 2019
Story Mask Project
These are colored sketches for a new porcelain mask project. It will be similar to the Mask as Self Portrait project, but are intended to be “story masks.” They are made using Aquarelle pencils, water brush, dip pens and color India inks.
Mask as Self Portrait
Porcelain painted self-portrait mask. All hand made, designed and painted by D.R. Harris
Painting Heads
Painting heads has been a decade-long project with over 650 extant examples. I call the pictures “heads,” as they are not true portraits, but representations of types, or the impression that a sitter or observed person projects. They range from informal sketches to wildly abstract versions of the real and imagined.
Most of the head paintings were made on iPhone or iPad using various painting apps. The impetus to use digital mobile devices to make art came from Mr. Harris’s longtime friend and colleague, Patricio Villarroel-Bórquez, a legendary musician and artist based in Paris.
The book Painting Heads is a teaser for a more complete volume that will contain the cream of over 700 heads made over the last decade.
Painting-HeadsThe Night Book
The Night Book is a catalog of the mixed media paintings that were first exhibited in 2017 at Burns Court Cafe and Gallery in Sarasota, Florida. This is a pdf of the second edition.