Month: November 2015

8.5×5.5″ acrylic on paper

This went very wrong at one point, and I have tried to bring it back from the edge with some over-painting and printing.

Another month is at an end, and my one-year daily-jane commitment has one more month to go. It is difficult to believe in some ways, and it seems I have been doing this forever in other ways. Thirty-one more daily artworks. Stay tuned.

6×6″ acrylic

This piece is all acrylic paint, but applied in different ways. It was scraped, brushed, palette-knifed, dried and adhered, and block-printed. The dried paint swirl that is collaged on is leftover from the circle “print” tool I used on the November 20 daily jane.

6×6″ (approx.)
thin copper wire, transparent polyester thread, on paper

This was fun to make, although a bit tedious when it came to getting the wire to sit right, and then trying to tie it down with very thin and independent-minded plastic thread. I took the photo of it during a rare bit of sun coming in the window to create the shadows.

9.5×7.5″ acrylic

Scraped acrylic on matboard. Kinda wacky. That’s about all there is to say!

8×6″ collage on paper

I arranged some cut-up postcard and bookmark slivers into this pattern and collaged them onto the paper. The colors and forms remind me of a woven blanket—a blanket of warmth and gratitude on this Thanksgiving Day.

9.5×7.5″ acrylic (and marker) on matboard

I took an old scraped poem-painting (someone else’s poem, for a commission) that was languishing in my “seconds” box and scraped new paint over the whole thing. I also “printed” some acrylic by pressing the scraping-tool leftover paint onto the matboard (it’s the magenta form that looks like half a leaf in the lower right). Some words are still peeking through, but not very well or legibly. Just adds to the mystery!

8×6″ acrylic, collage on paper

After scraping some acrylic paint, I collaged a piece of white paper vertically and then added some transparent zinc white paint blobs to the right of that. And then decided to stop while I was ahead!

6×6″ acrylic on paper

Another free-form, no-idea painting exercise. I was tempted to add other colors, but decided two tones of each of the three colors were sufficient.