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Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2023
This piece has already found a home and is not available.
This small series of 3 are all done in the same colors but with a different feel to each. They were painted in conjunction with a current series that I am still working on. Same colors (as I seemed to have mixed up vats of the colors), but completely different set of parameters for this three than the series. In these I am not trying to encapsulate sadness (which is proving difficult for a usually cheerful person).
An abstract landscape is unusual for me, so is definately an experiment.
And I have to say a huge "Thank You" to everyone who takes the time to look at the work. Even greater thanks to those who like and comment. Really, it is a gift in this time and place that we can circumvent the gatekeepers.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2023
This small series of 3 are all done in the same colors but with a different feel to each. They were painted in conjunction with a current series that I am still working on. Same colors (as I seemed to have mixed up vats of the colors), but completely different set of parameters for this three than the series. In these I am not trying to encapsulate sadness (which is proving difficult for a usually cheerful person).
An abstract landscape is unusual for me, so is definately an experiment.
And I have to say a huge "Thank You" to everyone who takes the time to look at the work. Even greater thanks to those who like and comment. Really, it is a gift in this time and place that we can circumvent the gatekeepers.
2023
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
A small piece of fun in colors that I like. Who needs a sketch book (at least for right now). This is how I test colors, shapes, tools, marks, and just general fun. Enjoy.
By the way, I love posting to Flickr. Never do I feel like I have to have a plan, or an agenda. Flickr folk have been gracious and kind about everyone coming as they are at the moment. Thank you.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2023
This small series of 3 are all done in the same colors but with a different feel to each. They were painted in conjunction with a current series that I am still working on. Same colors (as I seemed to have mixed up vats of the colors), but completely different set of parameters for this three than the series. In these I am not trying to encapsulate sadness (which is proving difficult for a usually cheerful person).
An abstract landscape is unusual for me, so is definately an experiment.
And I have to say a huge "Thank You" to everyone who takes the time to look at the work. Even greater thanks to those who like and comment. Really, it is a gift in this time and place that we can circumvent the gatekeepers.
projekt
anfallpapiere, zerrissene bilder, usw. zu büchlein gebungen, teilweise noch mit collage ergänzt….
noch zeichnerisch überarbeitet.
2022/23
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper Mounted on a Cradled Panel
2025
This piece “The Light We Lost” was an experiment of using acrylic paints like watercolors.
All of the paint was watered down and applied to an un-sealed piece of watercolor paper. It was a lovely experiment. Look at how the colors soaked into the paper and in places became diffused. It is a very abstracted version of a landscape. I loved the greens and impressions of water and hills. Read into it what you will.
Mostly this next group of paintings is my tribute to the photographers of Flickr who document such wonderful sunsets and sunrises. These are my attempts to create interesting events of the changing of the light. None are as successful as the photographs I see and none are trying to copy any particular photograph. That would be cheating in a way as someone else saw the event they photographed.
These are my attempts at the memory of sunsets (never sunrises really as I don’t get up early) or the memory of having seen many images of sunsets and sunrises here on Flickr. Thank you all for the beauty you create and share.
I am saving the actual abstracts for a separate set of postings…
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2025
This is a study painting in my sketch book that I use to set the tone for the rest of the pieces in the series. The focus of the work is still sunset/sunrise but I had fun with semi-abstracted, but somewhat more representational elements. This is a small piece.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2023
More from the box circa 2023. This is my effort to continue getting the last of the 2023 work posted and seen before moving on.
All of these three pieces had something interesting that I was exploring, fun shapes, painted tissue paper collaged on, crazy lines and colors. None of them are anything major, but it was fun to learn more and play with no expectations.
They may just end up in one of my journals about exploration. But right now I hope you enjoy...
Cheers.
This is officially Nebula's Edge.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas.
This piece started out to use up this beautiful blue/black color that I had mixed up for other projects. It was all fun and games until I started to love what was happening. It really comes to life when it is properly lit to show the complexities in the color play.
Nebula's Edge has already found its forever home with a friend of mine after I told my husband that we couldn't keep it because we have no open wall space. We get to visit this beauty often.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2025
Ah, “Staring At The Sunset” is my favorite of this series. Maybe it is the asymmetrical composition of the piece. Maybe it is the pop of hot pink that is left over from the initial paints that I put onto the canvas to get it started. I love how the brush strokes feel so active. I can feel the movement. Not too sure about the green that mixed in the sky, but I loved the effect, so I went with it.
As a note, the 3 canvases for this series were gifted to me by a friend who had them laying about and figured I could do something with them.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2025
In this piece I was working towards an interesting sky. Somehow the foreground grasses turned out interesting as well. A friend of mine saw it in progress and named it, then bought it when it was done. I think she worried every time she came to visit it while I was working on it. There was no guarantee it would retain any of what she loved as I played with it until I was satisfied I was done.
It all worked out in the end and “To Find The Ocean At Dawn” has gone to a good home where it is loved.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2024
The last of the pieces for 2024 just to finish up. A piece that I liked and was painted as an abstract companion to the "Into The Blue" series, so the colors are very similar.
So much I am behind on getting done. And somehow the computer work is not the first thing on my to do list when I have some time. I like you all, but would always prefer to be in the studio making a mess.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2025
Also in a sketchbook, but a larger attempt. This sunset/sunrise test piece introduces texture into the sky and the water of the work.
"Follow Your Dreams" was claimed by the person who purchased another of the canvas pieces, so it is off to a good home along with “To Find the Ocean at Dawn.”
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2025
When I was a kid, we had a pond in the cow pasture that grew cattails. They were magnificent and made great swords to whack each other with (I had 4 brothers and a sister). This is not a realistic scene as that pond was a mucky, muddy depression in the field that dried up in the hot summers in California. There was star thistle and tar weed. Yuck.
This is what I wished it had looked like. We can remake our memories as we wish if we have paint and the chance to play. I kept the cattails and re-invented the rest.
May you have as much fun remaking the memories you would like to see differently. I would much prefer to base this effort on the beautiful images that Flickr provides.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2023
More from the box circa 2023. This is my effort to continue getting the last of the 2023 work posted and seen before moving on.
All of these three pieces had something interesting that I was exploring, fun shapes, painted tissue paper collaged on, crazy lines and colors. None of them are anything major, but it was fun to learn more and play with no expectations.
They may just end up in one of my journals about exploration. But right now I hope you enjoy...
Cheers.
4x6 Inch pieces
2024
Acrylic on paper or loose canvas
Showing my favorite 20 out of about 50 pieces total made in the test.
This series was made in response to a friend who was looking for a small piece to fill a space on her wall. She set the size and made a verbal request for colors. It was kind of funny and taught me that people describe colors so very differently.
I was testing different papers to finalize one type that I would be using in the future and to see how the paint reacted with the different types of substrates.
Some of the pieces will end up mounted to be hung, but most will be turned into cards (because I didn't size them right when I cut them and they didn't fit). All of them will be used though.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2023
More from the box circa 2023. This is my effort to continue getting the last of the 2023 work posted and seen before moving on.
All of these three pieces had something interesting that I was exploring, fun shapes, painted tissue paper collaged on, crazy lines and colors. None of them are anything major, but it was fun to learn more and play with no expectations.
They may just end up in one of my journals about exploration. But right now I hope you enjoy...
Cheers.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
2024
This is a piece that I finished back in July. It was sitting unfinished in a pile of unfinished, fun works that were me playing with leftover paint. I had someone see it and want it, so I had to finally bring it to a finish. And off it went.
I am not sure why I have hesitated to post this piece. I like it, but there is something about it that held me back. Maybe it is the cheerful colors.
But cheerful is good right now. It is the October/November time of people and pets leaving, which is why there have been no posts or Flickr time.
Hopefully your fall has been better.
24x30 Inches
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2023
This is me holding “Reaching Sadness” for a sense of scale since it is one of the two larger pieces in this series.
This little aceo/atc was machine stitched and top quilted. The edges are embellished with trims.
This is one of 16 Artist trading cards that was created to trade with 16 other WWAO artists. It is a one of kind original and is the standard 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".