{New Collage Series}...

New collage series for the Raven Cafe show.

I am using some of my paintings and collaging layering them in PSE.

I am quite pleased with the results of the first couple of attempts



I am working with a couple of series titles.

Either

 Daughters of Eve

or

Evolving Expressions

 These two collages are done using several different layers along with the same

painting.

I loved to know which one you all prefer.

That's the thing with PSE it can go on forever.

And you never know when to stop and just pick one.



{Collage Face #2}...

Collage #2 for Raven Cafe Art Show

Continuing with my experiments in collage.

If nothing else I am learning how to make my face paintings work.  Seems with enough

layering you can make them look nice.



(Christmas Art Journal~part 2}...

The inside front cover

 I've completed all of the machince stitiching so I've attached the inside cover page to the journal's cover. Now on to the back cover pages.

Once I complete those I will be able to start the inside pages.

Below is a close up of some Star stitching



{New Art for 2012}...

I will be apart of a collage art show at the Raven Cafe this spring.

So I am trying out some new art styles for that show.

This little painting is inspired in the style of Misty Mawn.

I am really pleased with my painting of such a small face.  It's barely an inch.

And a body for my paintings.  Both are new to me.

I wanted to do some encaustic on it but I used acrylic paint

on it ~ then learned you can't use encaustic over acrylics.

I have 2 more piece of substrate this same size so I will be doing a couple more

pieces in this series for the show. 

More on the show as it gets closer

{2012 Word of the Year}...

My 2012 Word of the Year

I think this poem sums it up perfectly.

Faith

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have

and take that step into the darkness

of the unknown,

we must believe that one of two things will happen...

There will be something solid for us to stand on.

Or, we will be taught how to fly.

~Patrick Overton

Happy New Year to all!

Please forgive my slowness in responding to comments.  I just can't seem to catch up.

{Christmas Art Journal-the beginning}...

The beginnings of my personal Christmas

photo book

The cover. 

The tree photo is an altered photo I started last year with so many layers I can't remember them all.

Obviously, it's not going to be a traditional red and green Christmas journal. 

I've been working on this in my head for at least a year maybe two.

So the best way for me to begin is with the front cover.  That way I would know what

size book I'm going to be working with.  It's  8.5" x 10.5" and it should be quite thick.

It will probably be the first of at least two Christmas journals.  I have decades of photos to sort through.

I will need to complete the back cover and their reverse sides before I start the pages.

I think this will be a work in progress for quite sometime.  So I'll post as I go.



{Nancy's Texture Challenge}...

My photo using 2 of Nancy Donaldson's textures.

You can check out the rest of the photo entries here on Nancy's blog.

These are some of the same fall branches I used for

my fall Pumpkin Festival garland wreath.

I really did have a lot of fun playing with these leaves.

When I was a child we lived in Michigan, so unlike

here in Arizona, we had tons of leaves.  And my sisters and neighborhood friends

would rake up mountains of leaves and spend many afternoons jumping in them.

Leaves are given freely

for everyone to enjoy.

Today I still enjoy (and always do) kicking up the piles of leaves that gather at the curbs.

And I love, just love seeing them fall from the blowing tress as I drive under them.

So how do you enjoy them?

{Erosion Bundle Art Journal final part}...

I think it's been about a year since I first created the fabric bundle and buried it.

And after many additional dye attempts and processes

the project is complete.

The cover

 New pages,  This includes the lace pocket.

The lace was also dyed in blueberries.

  I found this specimen jar on a road trip this past summer.

The label really does read 

"Specimen of Painting on Linen"

 Page with hair embellishment

 Page including stitched "sunflower"

And the back cover