They Call it Civilization NFS
I did this little (10″x10″) collage on top of another because I did not want to waste a beautiful 2″ cradled board. I knew I wanted to use a lot of the magazine papers treated with Citrasolv, a natural product that serves to “melt” the printer’s ink. I entered the finished product in a juried […]
Drama Queen SOLD
This watermedia abstract on yupo paper began as a multi-colored first layer of collaged painted tissue papers. It was vibrant but unresolved and stayed that way for many months. I was prompted to complete it so I could enter into the 2013 Rocky Mountain Watermedia Show juried by one of my favorite art teachers, Skip […]
Mid-Town-SOLD
This piece is a rework of an abstract that was juried into the Rockies West National Watermedia Show a couple of years ago. I had used its frame for another piece, and so this piece of painted yupo was hanging around my studio. I took another look at it and decided to cut it down […]
Finish That Thought SOLD
Here is a re-working of an abstract on yupo. I just realized that it wasn’t resolved. I keep on asking “How can I make it better?”; “How can I use more pleasingly meaningful shapes?”; “How do I make the image more beautiful?”. I tried to answer those questions in action to the best of my […]
Doppelganger
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 […]
Making Peace with Circles-SOLD
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 I stamped in the circles. I named it “Making Peace with Circles” because of the calm blue background and the fact that I do […]
Three Martini Lunch – NFS
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 […]
Blue and Yellow – SOLD
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 […]
Wildfire Afternoon SOLD
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 […]