This painting started out as a response to a challenge posed by this year’s program for the Rocky Mountain Collage Society. We were asked to bring a black and white collage to our November meeting. I collaged a random selection of black and white collage pieces onto a piece of yupo. I [...]
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This mixed watermedia painting has had several lives. It started out as a figure painting and morphed into some sort of totem that I called “The Big Kahuna”. It was OK in this form–the colors were interesting, but the shapes just weren’t good enough. As it was hanging around my studio and [...]
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I did this experimental watermedia piece as a classroom demo. I began by just painting a bunch of random stuff using stamping, cheesecloth and various other watermedia techniques. I slowly refined shapes and worked it up into something that reminded me of a cool summer evening. This painting is matted and framed [...]
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This is my watermedia version of Stopping Traffic (see collages). It love embellishing these mystical figures. This painting was juried into the Western Colorado Watercolor Society Show in 2009 where it won a merchandise award. It is currently at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado where it was juried into the Rocky [...]
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So I am into dots these days. This piece started out as a landscape based on a photo taken in my neighborhood. I began it in a workshop I was teaching to demonstrate using loosely drawn black lines using a pipette bottle. After I finished applying my black lines, one of my [...]
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I painted this experimental watermedia piece on Yupo* several summers ago during an extreme drought in Colorado. There was an almost constant smoky haze and odor in the air from the many wildfires around the region.
I thought the intense hot colors of red, orange and rose had to be counter-balanced by shots of blues [...]
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This experimental abstract will soon be hanging at Co-Art gallery on Santa Fe Street in Denver as part of the New Trends 2009 Show sponsored by the Colorado Watercolor Society.
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