I have had this piece hanging around my studio for a long time waiting to be finished. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted it to be a collage or a watermedia painting. Well this week I decided to finish it in watermedia. I tore off all the collage pieces that weren’t painted paper and really [...]
I decided to return to one of my favorite ways of doing art: abstract design on yupo paper using liquid acrylics. This piece began as a demonstration of a colorful substrate in my “Adventures in Mixed Media Class” at the Art Center. I brought it home and painted it as another in my series of [...]
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medium: Abstract, watermedia, watermedia with collage
This watermedia piece was done on a hand-made piece of paper. True to my style, it also has layers of collaged materials underneath. It turned into a grid by accident as a stamped in the circles. I named it “Making Peace with Circles” because of the calm blue background and the fact that I do [...]
I have had this piece floating around my studio for a while and it has gone through several incarnations. I just happened to look at it the other day and realized I really like it. The inspiration is Jerusalem. It is watermedia on collaged paper. It is for sale framed for $800.00
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medium: watermedia with collage
This watermedia piece is the result of a class project that I assigned involving working in a grid. I worked on it for two class semesters actually. It started out as nine very similiar trees. It was boring. One of my students said that she saw faces in the trees so I took her suggestion [...]
This is another in my series abstract figures based on the Navaho Yei designs. They are sort of deities, observers, caretakers. I am not sure where they come from, but I like them. It has just recently been accepted into the group show “Abstractions” at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago scheduled to open from [...]
