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 […]
The Chicken Foster Family Watercolor
Last week I completed a watercolor of my good friend’s chickens, The Chicken Foster Family Watercolor. This is not the subject matter that I usually paint but when my good friend proudly showed me photos she had made of her chickens, I was taken back by the striking colorful combinations of the feathers on the […]
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 […]
Direction Collage With Recycled Material
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 […]