The guide

The Guide  mixed media on canvas 30x30"

december views

Since everyone is posting their neat and tidy studios, here's mine. Right now.

Close up of "Encroachment" going to the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Jan. for the "New Waves" exhibit.

New mixed media work on canvas "In this house"

New direction, of a sort.. and a dash of Esparanza

Working larger and mixing some media.  This is acrylic, pastel and pencil on canvas 30x40"

And Ms. Spalding is on heavy rotation in the studio..

Studio shots

The studio has been cleaned (more or less) and a few works in progress are still around. These are mixed media, oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas.

Adding fiber and paint

Mixing the media..

aspects of the 'lazarus' series

literary ladies..

Ophelia, her watery grave..

Jo from 'Little Women"

Mixed media pictures from an ongoing series

all done, for now

Wrapped up a submission for the ArtHouse co-op's "The Color Project' with some mini quilts, all about 9x11" and mixed media. 

All the above base on literary characters. Mixed media, fabric, paint, pages from the books, hand and machine stitching. The theme was to make the pieces primarily, red, blue, green or yellow. Above is the red, blue and yellow pieces..Poor Ophelia there in the blue, already becoming her ghost..

And I was so please with the silk hand dye results, I've used some of that in the 'green' piece, hand and machine made, with had stitching and hand spun wool yarn.

ghosts

on a cold, winter's day..

sketch book

I still keep a sketchbook. It's about the closest thing I get to a journal. I'd love to do the journal quilt thing..maybe the summer.. If nothing else gets done during the day, I at least try and put something in a sketch book. I have stacks of them. Ideas that will never see the light of day..

Mixed media is happening lately. These are pencil/guache/wax on paper. I wish I had Dumbledore's pensive, he pulls those things out of his brain and stores them in that magic bowl of his..

peter

The craft fair went well, I'm amazed at how creative people are with ordinary objects. I love the whole found/recycle idea people have. Making something creative and artistic out of stuff people discard. Bottles, cans, etc.. really amazing. Is there a separate category for these people? Green crafters, or such?

Anyway, here's some detail of a piece from a mixed media series I'm doing on the apostles. This is part of Peter, he who was a fisherman, who became a fisher of men! Mounted on canvas, it's fabric, netting, beads and paint... 24"x24"

sketchbook thursday.

working with grids and mixed media

illustration friday

'wrinkles'..a few wrinkles w/recycled items, paper, paint, inks, threads