Meet McDreamy. I based his coloring on a boyfriend from high school and he is worked on a 4×12″ canvas in Caran d’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons. On top of the canvas and under his chin are pieces of painted masking tape from another project. His name is scrawled in pencil. I have five other boy canvases made to balance out the estrogen of the girls who appeared in my first blog post.
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Camera shy guy
Posted: December 9, 2011 in New Mixed Media artTags: found images, mixed media, new art work, stencils
Camera shy guy originally was a found photograph from the ’50s of a man in what seems to be his new TV/electronics store. I loved his big old hand trying (nearly successfully) to block his face, with all his retro equipment in the background. I bought a cool book of stencils just for the telephone poles and was jones-ing to use them. The photo was shopped a little in Elements, affixed to a canvas board, stenciled and painted (Golden’s Micaceous Iron Oxide was one paint I used). I then put lines on his big old hand and drew him a pocket for the pocket protector you KNOW was waiting on his desk. Leslie Curran bought this piece for her cool store, Interior Motives, 1110 Central Avenue, St. Pete, FL. He accepts visitors but remember, he’s shy…
Shadow image, found birdy
Posted: December 8, 2011 in photographyTags: found images, photography, shadows
A couple of years ago as I went through my Florida room I noticed this beautiful cast shadow on the wall. There was a bird knick knack sitting on a shelf and the sun was hitting it just the right way to cast this lovely shadow. I was lucky to find my camera in time to record it. Note: if you haven’t captured shadow images yet, time is of the essence. The little blurries around the bird are actually light moving…it happens that fast. I save all my found shadow pictures, even blurries and bad compositions. I do what I can to photoshop the formats but the haziness is left unattended. This type of photography brings me such joy.
I bought a large street index of the Virginia Beach area that has at least 100 pages. I’ve been working through the book from the beginning making art journal entries. This page was colored with Pelikan Gouache paints (a 24 color set I have), permanent marker and a white gel pen, Pentel Sunburst, which I like very much. The original lines on the map reminded me of a fish shape and that informed the subject matter of the page. Small memories of my time as a child on the Chesapeake Bay beaches are documented. Seashells and seahorse images are rubber stamps.
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Posted: December 6, 2011 in New Mixed Media art
Tags: altered book, journaling, new art work
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