I am back.
I dropped the 'art' of conversation when that whole
Palin for Vice President fiasco thing happened. I thought so much more of
My Fellow Americans... I am ready to put that behind me now.
I put a lot of my ART on hold a few years ago too.
Depression,
economy,
illness -- depression. Recently, I told myself that I had to at least do a pencil sketch every day. Not a doodle - but a sketch. From that, I moved into working with colors. My granddaughter, Camille, and I had done some work with her watercolor pencils - I started really exploring this medium after her visit ended.
The watercolor pencils made me think about a way to use all this stuff I had been collecting most of my life. Really~! When I was four or five years old, my mother would sit me down with a pile of magazines and tell me to cut out pictures I liked, and then we would glue them into 'scrapbooks.' These were real scrapbooks -- I know because the work scrapbook was written on the cover. The pages are of rough newsprint.
I have collected boxes and boxes of every kind of thing through the years -- just because I liked these things. Now I am doing art with them! Something akin to
assemblage, though I do use acrylic paints, colored pencils,
some 'cool' watercolor crayons, chalk, some pencils --- anything I want! New rule: NO RULES.
Let me know what you think.
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This is a big one -- 20x24. It has the feel of a Life Magazine
Name: Double Issue; paper paint on canvas |
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| This one is called "969 years" it is like a fold-out book - every surface (back/front/joinery) is covered with canvas, paint, and 'cutouts.' |
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| Called "What's Real, A Life's Work"; canvas, old valentine, other 'cutouts' this and the previous piece this is called Desk Art. this one is about 6 x 6, with a fold-out door. |
