sketchbook 02.28.2013

Mixed media collage - acrylic, prepared and found papers, cardboard, clay, wire, beads, brads, found metal objects on watercolor paper. 5 x 7

Bonnie Prince Charles

Collage -- newspaper, decorative papers, tile, rusty wire,

seed beads, washers, postage stamp, found objects, 

magazine picture on canvas.

8" x 10"

$75

Connections

Mixed-media collage -- tinted tissue paper*, vintage newspaper, handmade

paper, ink, magazine pictures, clay, bead wire, glass, rusty nail, faux gems, found object

(rusty, twisted wire) on canvas.

8" x 10"

$75

*Note: I hand-tint Spectra art tissue using fluid acrylics and lots of water.

Trinity

Mixed-media collage -- Vintage newspaper, handmade paper*, painted paper*,

vintage costume jewelry, rusty nail and washer, seed beads, glass and bead wire on canvas.

8" x 10"

$75

*Notes -- I made the paper from recycled brown Kraft paper (left and right) and recycled photocopy paper dyed with green tea (center).

Windows

mixed media collage - tinted tissue paper*, part of a capiz shell

lampshade, rusty paper clips, photographs* printed on

newsprint, stone beads, and metallic brads on canvas.

8" x 10"
$75

*Notes - I took the photographs in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff 
Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
I hand-tint Spectra art tissue using fluid acrylics and lots of water.

a horse with no name

mixed media collage - tinted tissue paper*, found images, images

printed on tissue paper, photograph* printed on newsprint, bead wire,

chain, glass, beads, metal rings, found metal object on canvas board.

8" x 10"
$70

*Notes - I took the photograph of the wire horse in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff 

Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

I hand-tint Spectra art tissue using fluid acrylics and lots of water.

Buy the Best

Mixed media collage: tinted tissue paper, vintage newspaper,

found image and metal objects, beads, wire on canvas board.

6" x 8"
$40

*Note -- I hand-tint Spectra art tissue using fluid acrylics and lots of water.

...an enormous pyramidal structure...

Mixed media collage: acrylic, handmade paper with inclusions,

tissue paper, silk napkin, glass, book excerpt*, found images

 and metal objects on canvas board.

5" x 7"
SOLD

*from 1984 by George Orwell

he never prevented the bleating of sheep

Mixed media collage: tinted tissue paper, found images and

metal objects, wire, beads, glass, clay on canvas board.

8" x 10"
NFS (gift to MWH)

I was taking the fish down to Oxford Street

Mixed media collage: tinted tissue paper*, found images, bead wire,

brads, beads, mica, found metal objects on canvas board.

6" x 8"
$40

*Note -- I tint Spectra art tissue using fluid acrylics and lots of water.
The canvas board is textured with opaque gel acrylic medium.