Here are three pages from the sketchbook that I completed for the 2012 Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project. All sketchbooks sent to the ArtHouse Co-op in Brooklyn, New York will go on a world-wide tour in 2012 and then will be permanently archived. I loved doing this project. I picked the theme “A Walk through [...]
The Blue Pig Gallery in Palisade, Colorado assigned all of its artists a challenge to do as many 5×7 inch postcards as they could manage. They will be hung on clothesline across the gallery in starting in July. I started the first one while we were in NYC, using the Playbills we got from the [...]
Every year I participate in The Blue Pig Gallery’s “Little Piggies” show in which the artist’s show small works priced reasonably for holiday giving and getting. This year I collaged 5 inch x 5 inch wooden boxes with text papers from vintage Mother Earth Catalogs, added balsa wood collaged houses or encaustic highlights to create [...]
I assigned a self-portrait in my last class at the Art Center during the Spring session. This was my attempt to fulfill the assignment. I photo-shopped an image of my face, printed it out and added it to a print out of the Mona Lisa. I like to print out images that I plan to [...]
I just finished 3 12×12 box frame encaustic collage pieces for the Palisade International Bee Festival which happens on April 16th and April 17, 2010. The event is a response to the continuing crisis of hive decline among our most precious agricultural resource, bees. This art is part of an exhibition in conjunction with the [...]
In late November, the Colorado Council on the Arts and Colorado Friends of Culture commissioned me to do three paintings to present to the winners of the Governor’s Art Award. I was to do one for Telluride, Colorado, one for Creede, Colorado and one to hang in the Governor’s office in Denver. This was great [...]