Time Is A River
mixed watermedia on Yupo paper 23″ x 20″ $1500.00 I discovered a new process with this abstract, purely by accident. I began working on a demonstration piece of random collage application for a first layer. I scraped and sanded a lot of the collaged paper away and kept on working the surface with liquid acrylic […]
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 […]
Istanbul (Unavailable)
Mixed Media Collage with Watermedia 36″ x 26″ Matted and Framed For Sale: $1200.00 This large watermedia painting was done on yupo paper. It started out as a prompt exercise done in my mixed media class. It has random pieces of tissue, textured papers and newspaper as an underlayer. I like the randomness that responding […]
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 […]
Adobe Dawn SOLD
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 […]
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 […]
Old City SOLD
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. This piece won the Leon T. Hake Memorial Award at […]
Tree People
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 […]
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 […]