"Blue Vase"

This painting was inspired by the works of Annie O'Brien Gonzales. I love taking online workshops and decided to take a class in Expressive Mixed Media.  I certainly had fun and Annie really is inspiring!  Her work is amazing and I enjoyed adding some of her tips and techniques into this piece!  Although most of the original flowers I had painted on ended up disappearing in the end, I think the piece really is reflective on how passionate a simple vase of flowers can be!  I can imagine sitting at the table, mint tea in hand, and breathing in the beauty of this simple vase of flowers.  

 

 

  

"Blue Vase"

Mixed Media, Abstract painting. 

Canvas 16x12

Acrylic, handmade collage paper

$350.00

Granny's Bouquet

"Granny's Bouquet" was simply a fun piece to create!  Sometimes the simple paintings can make the biggest impact.  Creating this piece certainly did that for me!  It was created on a 8x8 canvas and the texture in the painting was achieved by using handmade paper, rice paper and my own texture fiber.  This was completely an intuitive creation arising from my own imagination.  

 

"Granny's Bouquet"

Mixed Media, Abstract painting. 

Canvas 8x8

Acrylic, handmade collage paper

$200.00

SOLD

New Works Progress

It's been a while since I have updated!  So many things happening!  I wanted to quickly post some of the new paintings and progress photos that I have been working on in the studio.  Currently, I am working a lot on still life paintings.  I am finding it hard to be very active right now as I just completed radiation treatment and am still doing chemo treatments.  My energy levels have been at the minimum.  I find I am struggling to paint daily and Ted to do a lot of my work late in the evenings.

This first piece is titled "Roses". It was done on 140 lb watercolour paper.  I really enjoyed the process of creating this piece. It was a mixture of collage and acrylic paint.  

 

 

 

 

"Roses"

Mixed Media, Abstract painting. 

Paper 8x10

Acrylic, handmade collage paper

$300.00

SOLD

The Golden Cross

Many of my paintings start off with an underpainting of handmade or hand painted/stained papers. I normally do not have a pre conceived idea of composition and like to allow the painting to become what it wants to be. In other words, I like to paint intuitively. "The Golden Cross" started out with monochromatic shades of hand painted papers in cerulean blue. I wanted to do a complimentary colour pallet so I used papers in shades of quinacridone gold as the complimentary colour. I tend to use the quinacridone gold as an yellow-orange and I love the way it makes the cerulean blue pop!

      
 

"The Golden Cross"

Mixed Media Abstract

Canvas, 20x20

Acrylic, hand painted paper, metal, texture paste, watercolour, ink

SOLD

  I also used an acrylic skin to create the circular, coin shaped emblem. I don't use acrylic skins a lot, but in this case, I wanted something to offset the grid composition that seemed to be appearing. As I was letting the layers dry, I noticed a cross had appeared. I decided to play on that and let the cross become the focal point. I also added some design and visual interest using handmade stamps and stencils. Over all, I am very pleased with the end result and think it turned out great!