Work in Progress

Detail from collage in progress.

Blue Green Beginnings

I've started work on a new collage that has an entirely different color palette from anything I've done in a long time... icy and grayed-green blues with chartreuse greens. Not sure where it will take me but it's rather refreshing and fun as it develops. The piece is 10 x 20" and in its very preliminary stage. Often early layers are almost completely obscured by the time I'm finished. I will try to document this one in process over the next week or so. 

2009

I'm working through some planning and organizing for my art business (and life) while taking a class from Alyson Stanfield. In doing some goal-setting, I wanted to abstractly represent some of what I most want to focus on this year. So this collage was created to serve as a reminder of my intent. It wouldn't mean anything to most, but it is symbolic to me of some issues I want to keep in the forefront of my mind. (Yes, that is a cracked eggshell in the middle!) I'm thinking about having it reproduced on coasters to keep on my various work surfaces so that it is a readily visible reminder. I enjoyed doing this little collage, just 4 x 4", composed of contemporary found papers on watercolor paper.

Figments...

of my imagination! Crazy papers that suggest a mouth, an eye, hair -- somehow come together into a wild facial expression or abstract portrait. A lot of serendipity is involved.

After my Mom saw some 30 or so pieces of the Foundling series on display at the Arvada Center Holiday Art Market a couple of years ago she jokingly said, "Maybe I never really have known you all that well...!" But then I was the kid that saw faces in the clouds and the wood grain of doors.

So while this series is rather whimsical, compared to some of my other work, it is fun to explore what can come of parts and pieces. I think they could be displayed singly or in "families." Some people have had very strong attractions to specific pieces that reminded them of someone specific.