Colors and Lines, Candy
Is today Wednesday? I’ve been thinking all day that today is Thursday. I’m so confused. Regardless, I do know that this painting is finished, and it’s my entry for Day 16 of Art Every Day Month. It’s 12 x 12 inches on paper, painted with acrylic paints and black acrylic ink.
Colors and Lines, Explosion
Day 15 of Art Every Day Month. Another in my Colors and Lines series of 12×12 inch paintings on paper. It’s painted with acrylic paints and acrylic ink. I’m really enjoying this square format. This one is wild and dramatic and full of energy. Some days are just like that.
Colors and Lines, Pearl
Another in the Colors and Lines series, this one cheerful and bright. These are my paintings, so I’m fond of each one in its own way. With this one, I experimented with a dry brush technique that I don’t often use. The paper has a pink and white floral pattern, hibiscus maybe? that peaks through [...]
Colors and Lines, Fall
Another 12×12 painting in my Colors and Lines series. This one is very much inspired by the windy fall weather we’ve been having. It’s also my entry for Day 13 of Art Every Day Month, November 2011. It’s acrylic paint and india ink on paper.
Three Little Sketches
On Saturday, I took a Travel Journal painting class with Nicki Lanzi over at the Peninsula Art Academy. Nicki demonstrated her technique for doing watercolor sketches of her travels and then we did some of our own. We worked from photos, but learned techniques that we can use as we’re on location. I took [...]
Colors and Lines, Purple
More fun with the colors and lines paintings! 12×12 inches on paper, just like the others. This has some wonderful purple and turquoise colors. Detail images are below.
Colors and Lines, Circles
I just love this one! I guess I’m supposed to say that about all of them, but I really like this one. I used several layers of paint so that the colors have a lot of depth. The ink has made such interesting shapes; the whole thing is very satisfying. This is again 12×12 inches [...]
Colors and Lines, Yellow
Now this one is just slightly different. After painting the colors and dripping on the ink, I added another layer of paint on top, and then more ink. You can see the first layer of ink just peeking through the paint in several places, but especially in the lower right. I really like how it [...]
Colors and Lines, Pink
I’m like a kid in a candy store with these paintings! I can’t get enough of them. This is painted again on pre-printed scrapbooking paper that has been printed with a larger dot pattern. You can see some of the dots in the upper left, ever so faintly. I gessoed the paper, then painted the [...]
Colors and Lines, Red
Oh, am I having fun with these! I love the ink against the colors. This one is painted on a 12×12 inch piece of scrapbooking paper. I bought a big stack of paper, the kind that’s pre-printed with stripes and swirls and plaids. This piece is printed red with tiny white dots. You can see [...]
Colors and Lines, Green
See the previous “Colors and Lines” post for the backstory here. This one is painted in cool shades of green, with bits of red, yellow, white, and pink. The black form was made by dropping India Ink on the paper and blowing through a drinking straw to push the ink around. It’s formed these wonderful [...]
Colors and Lines
Recently, I was doing some collages and wanted a way to add a fine dark line element to them. Something that looked like it was drawn but not so…controlled…as a line drawn with graphite or pen. So, being a former seamstress, I fired up the old sewing machines and ran some free-form lines of stitching [...]
On The Horizon
Most of the time, when I start a new piece, I have maybe an idea for a starting point – a color or technique – but it’s usually fairly vague. I enjoy the exploratory process of creating an artwork. Only once in a while do I know exactly how I want the finished piece to [...]
Drawing Exercises
I love drawings of all kinds – graphite, ink, black & white, color. Doesn’t matter. I love a gorgeous expressive line. Is it any wonder I was a drawing major in college? Needless to say, I’m a big believer in drawing skills. For me, it’s not about representing something realistically. It’s about hand-eye coordination – [...]
March Morning
This small collage had me thinking of a typical morning in Marc – sun coming up through the cold air, trees still bare, and the snow melting into gray slushy piles. This is 6×4 inches and is made of various papers with a few lines of top stitching.
Hills
This collage is made of bits of torn paper with some machine stitching along the bottom. The large white threads are embedded in the blue paper along the bottom. They became exposed when I tore the paper into strips and I liked how they looked. This ACEO will be in the Ohio Collage Society show [...]
In The Distance
This collage reminds me of looking across the ocean toward the hills in Puerto Vallarta. It’s made from bits of torn paper with some machine stitching along the bottom. This ACEO will be in the Ohio Collage Society show opening March 11 at the Box Gallery in Akron.
Surf
This paper collage has a bit of stitching along the bottom. It reminds me of the waves in Puerto Vallarta, where I just went on vacation. This ACEO will be in the Ohio Collage Society show opening March 11 at the Box Gallery in Akron.
Moon Rise
I’ve been working with collages lately. This one is made from images cut from magazine photos and store flyers, except for that bit of green along the bottom. It’s made by coating a magazine photo with several layers of acrylic matte medium. When fully dry, I soaked it in water for a few minutes to [...]
Every Vote Counts
During the 2010 election campaign, I got so much literature from people running for office – it was piled up in my mailbox, hung on my door, scattered in my landscaping – that I got fed up with it. So I tore it all up and made a collage out of it. It is now [...]
Spring Omen
Spring Omen is a collage made from bits of paper, a photo, some leaves, and a few lines of machine stitching. I have entered it into the Hudson Society of Artists 2011 Members Show.
