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Spring Bird on Arbutus Stump
Mixed media collage on paper
8" x 10" (matted)
$50
This small mixed media collage started out as a larger painting titled Arbutus Trees in Spring (see photo below).
Although I liked the painting well enough, I thought I could strengthen it by taking it further. So I cut it up and rearranged it. I'm glad I did because I think the new collage is more interesting than the original one.
Spring Bird on Arbutus Stump is collage with acrylic paint and oil pastel. The actual artwork is 5" x 7", but with the mat the size is 8" x 10". Slip it into a standard 8 x 10 frame and you'll have yourself a nice little original artwork for a great price.
Mixed media collage on paper
8" x 10" (matted)
$50
This small mixed media collage started out as a larger painting titled Arbutus Trees in Spring (see photo below).
Although I liked the painting well enough, I thought I could strengthen it by taking it further. So I cut it up and rearranged it. I'm glad I did because I think the new collage is more interesting than the original one.
Spring Bird on Arbutus Stump is collage with acrylic paint and oil pastel. The actual artwork is 5" x 7", but with the mat the size is 8" x 10". Slip it into a standard 8 x 10 frame and you'll have yourself a nice little original artwork for a great price.
Watching Her Heart
mixed media on canvas
6" x 8" x 1.5"
$50
I'm very pleased with this piece. Look closely behind the heart and you can see the eyes of a woman "watching her heart".
I started out with a deep stretched canvas, building up the green and blue surface with beeswax, crayon and flecks of gold leaf. Once that was dry, I made the cut-out in the centre so I could recess the 3-D heart. The final step was to affix the woman's face from the back. The woman's face is actually cut out from a famous poster by Rossetti. I had the poster in my living room for years - it was dry mounted on foamcore board, so it worked perfectly in this project (gave a nice clean finish for the back of the painting).
This painting is flexible in that it can stand up on its own (on a mantel or bookcase, for example) or be hung on the wall.
mixed media on canvas
6" x 8" x 1.5"
$50
I'm very pleased with this piece. Look closely behind the heart and you can see the eyes of a woman "watching her heart".
I started out with a deep stretched canvas, building up the green and blue surface with beeswax, crayon and flecks of gold leaf. Once that was dry, I made the cut-out in the centre so I could recess the 3-D heart. The final step was to affix the woman's face from the back. The woman's face is actually cut out from a famous poster by Rossetti. I had the poster in my living room for years - it was dry mounted on foamcore board, so it worked perfectly in this project (gave a nice clean finish for the back of the painting).
This painting is flexible in that it can stand up on its own (on a mantel or bookcase, for example) or be hung on the wall.
3 Reasons
collage
9" x 15"
$50
9" x 15"
$50
I started this collage in a workshop several years ago. Today I pulled it out and completed it.
To me this collage conveys a long, full and useful life.
The patchwork quilt is a metaphor for making the most of what life presents. The title comes from the small collage element in the lower right corner, which says "3 Reasons to Use It". The large black area is acrylic paint and the handwriting is in silver ink.
To me this collage conveys a long, full and useful life.
The patchwork quilt is a metaphor for making the most of what life presents. The title comes from the small collage element in the lower right corner, which says "3 Reasons to Use It". The large black area is acrylic paint and the handwriting is in silver ink.
Goddess of Abundancemixed media on board
11" x 7"
This is the first of my daily paintings. I used collage, acrylics, and oil pastel. It was fun to make and I'm delighted with it!
The central image of the mature woman in all her glory comes from an IKEA print ad. She looks so happy and comfortable with herself. There is something subversive about a naked older woman, and that appealed to me a great deal :)
I perched her on a throne of weathered stone to reflect her experience and "solidness".
The other main element is the gigantic corn stalk. I must admit that I wasn't thinking about the symbolic meaning of corn when I choose it. I just liked the masculine, shall we say..."upthrusting" of it.
Seriously now, the juxtaposition of the feminine and masculine in that weathered setting worked for me.
Later, it occured to me that corn is probably symbolic of something. I looked it up and found out that corn symbolizes plenty. According to PhoenixMasonry:
An ear of grain has been an emblem of plenty since the mists of antiquity which shroud the beginnings of mythology. Ceres, goddess of abundance, survives today in our cereals. The Greeks called her Demeter, a corruption of Gemeter, our mother earth. She wore a garland of grain and carried ears of grain in her hand...The Hebrew Shibboleth means both an ear of corn and a flood of water. Both are symbols of abundance, plenty, wealth.