A new canvas from the last couple days, seems to be romantic. I’ve done three others with basically the same palette so it looks like a new series is born. Paper foundation with Mod Podge™, acrylic paint, buttons, tag stamped and journaled, then a whirl of charcoal with a stamped birdy. A little charcoal was used to define the hair. Found objects are sewn on, not glued, that way I know they are on there for good. I may make greeting cards from her, I think she’s sweet.
Posts Tagged ‘painting’
Sees the world spinning around
Posted: January 4, 2012 in New Mixed Media artTags: found, journaling, mixed media, new art work, painted canvas, painting
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The Specific Gravity of His Sigh
Posted: December 20, 2011 in New Mixed Media artTags: art journaling, painted canvas, painting, Poster Paint markers
The second canvas I’ve blogged in the series of obsessive love and compulsive thinking. This is Persephone with her six pomegranate seeds that were eaten in the underworld and brought six months of winter to the above world. The title of this piece is The Specific Gravity of His Sigh. The base is gesso, paper napkins, paint, the original photo, handmade paper and the top layer of embellishment is pencil, gel stick and the (by now) infamous on this blog Sharpie Poster Paint™ marker in white.
I added the second picture so that you could see the obsessive pencil writing in her hair and on her face. The writing just repeats the title of the piece over and over. She’s really worried about that sigh…haven’t we all?
Funky birds in reverse applique
Posted: December 16, 2011 in Reverse appliqueTags: fabric, mixed media, painting, sewing, stitching
One day I painted some muslin with Micaceous Iron Oxide by Golden and gathered a print and some other handpainted cloth and began to sew the pieces together randomly by machine. I simply went where the machine needle was pointing and sewed for about 20-30 minutes, I would say. Then I took scissors and began to (again) randomly cut away at the layers of fabric I had sewn together. What began to emerge was one pretty obvious funky bird, and a few others if you are able to rotate the circle around and stare for a minute or so. After the first cutting session, I added more machine sewing and cut again. Ultimately, I sewed whatever needed it and then appliqued the silver cut circle to the top of the piece and called it finished. I could also title this Bird Mandala.
She likes her men off the rack
Posted: December 14, 2011 in New Mixed Media artTags: art journaling, journal canvas, journaling, painting, photography, stencils
This is a 12×12 journal canvas that is one of five in a theme of obsessive love and compulsive thoughts. The title is “Off the Rack” and is composed from two original photographs, a background of tissue paper, heavy stenciling, working back in with acrylics and brush and then journaling on her face with pencil and on the canvas with white Sharpie™ poster paint marker. When these pieces appeared in a show, I was surprised that men were as interested in them as women.
Praying by Amethyst River
Posted: December 13, 2011 in New Mixed Media artTags: painting, self-portrait
This mixed media painting was completed a couple years ago and I would consider it a self portrait. Tissue and handmade papers were used, as well as a book with Asian calligraphy that became the tree trunks. The striated nature of the composition was intentional. The hair is seashell. I’ve been asked many times why the figure has one eye closed and one eye wide open. I have no answer for that, except an affinity for owls and perhaps the idea that our vision is really incomplete, as if seeing with one eye only.
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