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The World Outside
Mixed media collage on paper
9" x 12"
$50
Mixed media collage on paper
9" x 12"
$50
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.
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.
Grrrl PowerMixed media on canvas
24" x 16"
$450
This was the second painting I did using photos and transparencies.
Whereas in Being 13 I
used only dry media (paper, photos, transparencies, oil stick), in
Grrrl Power I branched out into using a combination of dry media
(paper, vintage wallpaper, photocopies, transparencies) and wet media
(acrylic paint).
Grrrl Power began with a photograph that I had
taken of my ten-year-old niece Leonie and her friend Annie.
In the photo, Leonie is impatient with posing and wanting to leave, while Annie is clowning around pulling her tiger t-shirt over her face.
I enlarged the photo to 11x17 and then used a photocopier to make lots of copies in various sizes. I used a stretched canvas as the support, and prepared it by "building" a surface of texture using old wallpaper and fabric. I then played around with various configurations of the photocopied images until something surfaced.
What I discovered is that the most evocative part of the image was Leonie’s posture* - her outstretched leg and beautifully curving outer arm. I decided to feature the shape of her arm by repeating it in diminishing sizes.While I was working on the painting, I was thinking about what it means to be a girl in our society. To represent my hope that Annie and Leonie’s apparent joy and confidence would continue, I added the angel holding a candle. After adhering all the collage elements, I painted around and over the collage elements with acrylic paints.
*After reading this analysis, Leonie said "Aunty, I disagree. The most evocative part of the image is the relationship between Annie and me." Smart kid.
Being 13Mixed media on matboard
$200
This is one of my all-time favourite pieces. It was the first piece I did using photos combined with transparencies.
The girl in the photo is my niece Karla. She was thirteen at the time, hence the title Being 13. I took the photo of Karla as part of an assignment for my photography class and liked it so much that I turned it into this painting.
I've had this in my "can't part with it drawer" for quite some time but have recently decided I have to start parting with more things!