I have re-worked this watermedia on Yupo piece. It seems to be in its final form as I have added some new quirks and removed a little murkiness. I listen to the English alternative group, Muse, a lot in my studio, so the title is a tribute to one of their songs. This piece is [...]
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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 [...]
Well, this collage has an interesting history. It started out as a watercolor of a seabed–fairly abstract. As such it was juried into a local exhibition of “contemporary” art. It hung around my studio for a while. Then I discovered a new technique in a workshop I attended with Joanne Ruggles. It involves drawing with [...]
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 [...]
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.
