Roundabout Abstract Collage Painting is a collage I created on stretched canvas using acrylic paints and cut pieces from a white paper table cloth. I started the collage by using red, blue and white in small amounts of acrylic paint with very little water added. I then rubbed them into the canvas with a circular […]
Black History Month Art Collage
For years I had wanted to create some Black History month art collages. I taught art in multiple inner city schools which were predominately African-American. Every February the curriculum in all grades focused around Black History, but for third, fourth and fifth grades, there was a strong emphasis on every phase of black history. My […]
Civil Rights Collage 1- Desegregation
My desire to create this Civil Rights Collage 1 -Desegregation has been a long time in the process of my thoughts. For eight years I thought in inner city public schools. For the first time I was a minority in predominately African-American elementary schools. Because the schools had such a low enrollment, I was required […]
Recycled Bottle Caps Collage Painting Pa...
My progress with the recycled bottle caps part 2 Collage Painting was delayed for several reasons. I was traveling last month and could not take the art project with me on the plane and the holidays also kept me from working on it regularly. In retrospect I think that this was positive though. I […]
New Growth Collage
New Growth Collage is a piece that I had an idea for in my continued series of art with recycled materials. I have in the past relied on materials that are not organic but had saved some pumpkin seeds that I had roasted to long for them to be edible. I loved the idea […]