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 [...]
Here are two 10×10 inch cradled boards that I collaged upon using only papers, boxes, etc. that I picked up off the ground during my neighborhood walks. Some of the pieces are wonderfully weathered so I did not use any paint, just some gloss medium as adhesive. I did put some copper dust on the [...]
Another still life with sunflowers which is a theme I keep coming back to. It must be the spirit of Vincent Van Gogh in my studio influencing me. This is a collage using a wonderful piece of yellow dot paper (the dots are bits of wax) that my friends brought back to me from Santa [...]
I did this collage as I was experimenting with mark-making with ink on a piece of watercolor paper that already had a collection of random collage pieces on it. The abstracted figures emerged and I continued to pull them out of the chaos. The red traffic signal shaped element is intriguing to me. This work [...]
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 [...]
