Moon on Mesa

Moon on Mesa is 8x8" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Moon on Mesa in Blue

Moon on Mesa in Blue is 7x7" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Turquoise Profusion

Turquoise Profusion is 6x8" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Sunburst

Sunburst is 6x8" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Jade Enchantment

Jade Enchantment is 7x7" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Garnet Sunburst

Garnet Sunburst is 7x7" Acrylic Media and Collage on Paper.

Bouquet

Bouquet is 7x7" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Social Media 2

Social Media 2 is 7x7" Aqua Media and Collage on Paper.

Social Media 1

Social Media 1 is 6x8" Aqua Media and Collage on Watercolor Paper.

Emerald Graffiti

Emerald Grafitti is 6x6" acrylic media and collage on 8x8" matte board.

Portent

Portent is 6x6" acrylic media and collage on panel.

Ruby Tracings

Ruby Tracings is 6x6" acrylic media and collage on 8x8" matte board.

Vestige of Time

Vestige of Time is 6x6" acrylic media and collage on 8x8" matte board.

Bygone Time

Design and Texture: This series is taking on a feeling of ancient finds, textures from the passing of time.  Layering collage pieces which I've designed and made, still beginning with the Grid, is endlessly fascinating.

Bygone Time is 8x8" Acrylic media and collage on panel.

Portal

Values and Edges: Even with collage, you need to focus on values and  edges.  This often means that in the middle of a composition, I need to go back to the drawing board and re-make a paper.  Generally, I am painting tissue paper.  Slowly I'm accumulating papers in a number of values and saturations.

Portal is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.

Origins

Origins is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.

Ancient Traces

Ancient Traces is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.

Relic

Relic is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.

Graffiti

How to start a collage: When our class asked Carrie Burns Brown how she begins a collage, she responded wryly: " There is no way to begin a collage.  You just start gluing things down." This may be sage advice about starting any painting. I find sometimes it is not until the hand begins to move that  the ideas begin to come!

Graffiti is 8x8" acrylic and collage on panel.  

Antique

Antique:  Continuing to explore Design by Grid.  I'm getting the sense of red lacquer and worn leather.  Remembrances of ancestors and their journeys. 

Antique is 8x8" Acrylic media and collage on panel.