I am starting to get excited about a whole weekend of workshops coming up in Jerseyville, Illinois. We will kick things off on Friday night with “Mixed Media on the Cheap” full of tips and recipes for inexpensive mixed media … Continued
It’s all about the love today right? I made a whole batch of these little collage, then reverse painted hearts that are hanging out at Tessera Fine Art Gallery in Wichita. They are all either 4 x 6 or 5 … Continued
Last weekend I taught one of my favorite techniques, reverse painting, at Tessera Fine Art Gallery in Wichita . Making the background is loads of fun, but painting in where the images aren’t can be confusing and tricky! … Continued
Little “Forest Fox” is my first fox, something I have been wanting to do for some time. He sits by a reverse painted tree (the tree is the original background, painted around) among fronds that are one of my new … Continued
This Mandala is totally different than anything I have done before, yet uses some of my favorite elements… a mixed media background selectively painted over, and Citra Solv papers cut and pieced on top. I made the background on the … Continued
I stopped at a convenience store lately and there were several crows hanging out in front, strutting around pecking at the occasional crumbs of food left behind by hurrying customers. I paused to take pictures of them and wondered about … Continued
“Thoughts of Migration” is another of my reverse mixed media paintings. This time I used a Citra Solv altered map page for the background. On top of this I sketched in my tree, leaves, and bird. First I painted the … Continued
Last week, I was privileged to teach a workshop on reverse painting… I called it “Focus on the Negatives” which is totally opposite of my general philosophy on life! But in this case, by letting our beautiful backgrounds be the … Continued
