Direction Collage With recycled material is my first piece that I created in a new series I have started on using recycled material in my collage artwork. I have worked in collage before, mostly using fabric, print, painted tissue paper and foil. For this series, I decided to push it up a notch or two […]
Abstract Painting and Diptych X39 is a continuing effort and exploration for me with abstract expressionism. When I started to explore abstract painting about three years ago, it made me nervous and uncomfortable to be honest. I had always painted and created my art in a realistic or impressionistic style of painting. Looking back […]
In my continuing painting adventure to try many different methods of painting with my art, I decided this time to try a Series 7 painting with thinned down acrylic paints. I have always loved acrylic paints. When I was a child and took private art classes, the only choice was oil paints for a permanent […]
Recently I decided to try painting with fluid acrylic paints. By this I mean thinning the paints down to where they are transparent like watercolors. This is not a traditional approach to painting with acrylic paints. Using the paints very thick with an opaque look is the probably the most preferred and traditional […]
The idea behind my abstract painting with fine lines was to use a limited palette and explore the possibilities of what this would create with overlapping colors. I chose for this project an odd sized canvas because I had visually an idea of what I wanted to create and I wanted the available […]
