Latest Textured Painting -October 09

I`m feeling very good painting with these vibrant colors. 12" x 16" Second photo is a close up of an area on the painting.

My Princess Collage-Angelina

I took some watercolor paper and folded it in half and creased it with a bone folder. Took a happy photo of my Granddaughter Angelina and changed it to sepia tone in my photoshop type program. Then copied it with a copier that has permanent dye, like at Staples, etc. I ended up with this little painting of my Granddaughter, collaged and painted and stamped, and bejeweled. It was great fun!

Blue Angel Painting

This is what came out as I painted , I didn`t start with an idea. It evolved into this. I love painting in these blues and greens. 12" x 16".

New Textured Abstract Paintings

I made these four 9" x 12" canvas paintings ,to go together on a wall, in any configuration. Bright colors playing off of each other, in an abstract yet balanced way.




This is a section close up. It`s hard to get an exact picture . I made lots of texture first,( very fun!), and then painted for days, about a week and a half I`ve been working on these ......until I got what I was happy with.

Thank you for looking. These are For Sale. Email me if you are interested.

2 Texture Paintings I Made this Past Week

These were 2 more paintings I did in the same week, with my sister. Making texture with molding paste. Very fun and very colorful , using Golden brand paints. These 2 paintings have great energy in them from the time we spent together making them. I will always treasure them.

Making Creatures with Nina 09

I have a renewed interest in mixed media . My sister came from California and she and I painted for a week together. Our 1st paintings being these Mythical Creatures. New species made up of parts of animals and plants collaged together.
I`ve been stuck artistically lately and she was able to give me a hand , so to speak, at getting back to it. As with writers getting writer`s block, artist`s get artist`s block and I`ve had it for awhile. Not the end of the world as I`m always looking to see if I`m to evolve.
I made the Red Lion Man and the Swan Boy. She made the Monkey Princess. I`m in the brown shirt she is in the black shirt.
It was great to make art with someone else, and I hope to do it again as soon as possible. We layered paint, collage pics,stamping. Added the creature on top. Most reactions are no reaction to these creatures. Like if you have nothing good to say , say nothing at all. But they were great in opening me up , like opening a window and clearing out the stuffiness in my brain.And they are FUN to make. Made me giggle at the many variations that can be put together and some look goofier than others.




Monkey Princess _ Nina

Swan Boy_Melanee

Red Lion Man

Folk art Dollmaking in Progress

Every once in awhile I get a desire to work on my unidentified art pile. This is a box of things I stopped working on , considered it a failure at the time , or just thought someday it will come to me what I`m suppose to make out of this object. This doll was one of those. It was a beginning prototype of a small waisted doll that was not what I was looking for at the time.



I started with the idea to make an undercoat out of a different color than what I usually do. I used blue.




I drew on the eye placement with pencil.



And decided I didn`t like the face and changed it. I knew layers of paint will eventually cover the old placement.



I painted the features in outline like a coloring book.



I add face paint working to make those lines disappear, yet still be there .


I added striped stockings and shoes, hands, etc.







I added an antique dress off of an old broken composition doll I had sitting around. She lives on my shelf with some other dolls.