Fisherman’s Daughter
Continuing on with my Regal Women series, this woman lives on the coast… a New England State I believe, and has made friends with the local animal life. Might be a bit tough for her since she is the daughter … Continued
Monster Board Book
I had so much fun making my crow board book a couple of weeks ago that I decided to make a monster one too! This book had a little peak through front cover that I decided to keep. It got … Continued
Winter King
This regal fellow is sitting on a reverse painted tree. The background was created by using Citra Solv treated magazine pages as the background, then painting where the tree is not, then adding the cardinal. Here was my model… thanks … Continued
Flights of Fancy Redo
A couple of years ago, I painted this 20 x 24 inch watercolor that I called Flights of Fancy. I liked the concept, and an incomplete vision of it in my mind, but I was not wild about how the piece turned … Continued
From my Art Journal…. Transformation
Last week I taught a workshop on collage and paint for our art journals. We all worked with butterflies and women cut from magazines, but it was fun to see all the different directions the artists took it. This is a … Continued
Write a Love Song – Art Journal Prompt
If YOU wrote a love song, what would the lyrics be?
King Goldfinch
I paint much more often from my imagination than I do from a photo, but a friend recently gave me photos that she had taken of birds in her backyard. I have had the urge to paint birds for a … Continued
on blaming…. says me
My latest art journal page! I can’t decide if I like the blobby red line down the left side of the page, or if I should go back and “straighten” it up… What do you think?
The Gathering of Koi
I have been on a fish kick lately, and finally created the mixed media Koi piece that has been swimming around my head for awhile. It was a fun process, as every mixed media adventure seems to be! To create the … Continued