posted in: collage experimental / for sale / water media
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 [...]
Here is another version of my cave concept. I tried to use all the watermedia tricks in my tool basket to make the images look both old and new, on purpose and accidental, thoughtful and frivolous, tribal and modern. It is an enigma for sure…but pleasing enough. This piece is 18 inches wide by 20 [...]
posted in: collage experimental / for sale / water media
medium: watermedia, watermedia with collage, yupo
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 then began to [...]
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 Mountain National Watermedia [...]
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 students said it [...]
