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New Piece, But Not Really
The Separation of Heron and Crow IImonotype with mixed media, 9.5 x 8.75 inchesI finished this piece a while back, then totally forgot to post it. This only occurred to me recently (like today)....
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Weekly Quick Collage: Let's Try
Let's Trycollage, 5 x 5 inchesIf you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Elephant's Dream
I have no idea what elephants dream about, but it probably isn't this! Still, I had lots of fun making this crazy, whimsical piece. I hope you enjoy it!Elephant's Dreamcollage, 6 x 7.5 inches“I...
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Drawing Challenge: Image
The word "image" leaves a lot of room for interpretation. But as I thought about it, something I saw on television a couple of days ago kept coming back to me. It was about a study which showed that...
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Searching for ROY G BIV: Brown
We have come to the end of the rainbow. (Hmmmm.... where's that pot of gold?) Luckily, our blog hop hostesses, Julie B Booth and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen, have not let that end our search; this month's...
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Drawing Challenge: Tiny
A tiny and delicate dragonfly......all red, black, and shimmeringly transparent......is delightfully beautiful from a distance,...... but when enlarged, can seem....... a bit creepy.While something we...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Planes
Planescollage, 4.75 x 4 inchesI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way…things I had no words for....
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New Mixed Media: Map IV
Map IVingredients: vintage maps, vintage book pages, vintage stamps, acrylic ink, metallic pen, watercolor pencils, image transfers, stitching (7 x 7 inches)This piece has come together slowly,...
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Weekly Quick Collage: The Magic Door
The Magic Doorcollage, 5.5 x 4.25 inchesDid you ever work on a piece that turned out radically different from what you expected? Yeah, me too. Art-making, I find, often involves the element of...
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Think Square
I have a piece in this exhibit by 50 different talented printmakers form Tiger Lily Press and Northern Kentucky Printmakers. Please come by and see it if you get the chance. The opening reception is...
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September RoyGBiv: Metallic Gold
Since we have traveled the entire rainbow now (and more), you'd think the metallic gold would be what we found at the proverbial end. No such luck, but I did find some beautiful golden things on a...
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Weekly Quick Collage: No Direction Home
No Direction Homecollage, 8.5 x 5 inchesIt is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And...
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Bonus Weekly Quick Collage: Kingfisher
I really have been making quite a lot of these lately, so I decided to share two this week instead of just one.Kingfishermixed media collage on board, 5.5 x 6 inchesMaking these collages has become...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Abstract II
Abstract IIcollage, 7.5 x 6 inchesI am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it....
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Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darknessingredients: vintage book covers, vintage book pages, vintage watch movement, other found objects, feather, stitching, metallic oil crayon, graphite; 10.5 x 15 inches"Art is a wound...
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Searching for Roy G Biv: Gray
In our search for Roy G Biv, we have now come the color gray. Our hostesses, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen and Julie B Booth, had to add on some colors that aren't in the rainbow, in order to round out the...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Precision of Nature
Precision of Naturecollage, 6.5 x 5.5 inches “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Sacrament
Sacramentcollage, 5.5 x 5.5 inchesThis one is more of a "traditional" Surrealist piece than what I usually do. There is no intended meaning, so you are free to make one up yourself if you wish! It's...
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Drawing Challenge: Liminal
Portalcollage, 5 x 5 inchesWhen Veronica called the latest drawing challenge, "Liminal", I must admit that I had to look up the meaning.1: of or relating to a sensory threshold 2: barely perceptible...
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Searching for Roy G Biv: Pink
Since finding something pink around here in November is pretty difficult (gray or brown - take your pick), I had to go back a month or so for the photos. I tried to cover a wide variety of the...
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