Category: art

7.5×6″ acrylic on matboard

Acrylic paint, scraped and edged in layers. Not completely satisfied. But I would never post anything if I waited for that!

8×5″ acrylic, collage on matboard

In this one, I started with an existing scraped painting and added a little bit of new paint. Then I further cut up strips of postcards/bookmarks to use as collage pieces. The gluing of collage items was a little tedious, but I kind of like the effect.

The idea of doing this came to me in the middle of the night when I wasn’t sleeping and I wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget (and so I would go back to sleep, hopefully).

8×6″ acrylic on matboard

I revitalized a years-old scraped painting (in the reject bin) by adding the always popular transparent magenta. I like how the original colors retain some of their power underneath.

4×4″ acrylic on paper

I got these little 4×4″ watercolor papers at the art store recently. I like the size—bigger than an Artist Trading Card, but very doable as a daily practice.

This piece began with some knifed lines, some of which became the “fence” in the foreground. I brushed on the greens and blue after, as well as the brown at the bottom. Somewhere in the middle of the process I could see more clearly what this was becoming, so I followed the cues.

8.5×5.5″ acrylic on paper

Another combination of scraping, knifing, and block-printing with acrylic paint. I cut a new block of the larger circles that I used to print on this piece.

8.5×5.5″ acrylic, collage

I used a combination of scraping and knifing acrylic paint on this watercolor paper. For the collaged part, I used the outline of a heart cut out from a long-ago Valentines’ craft project with a niece (melting crayon shavings between wax paper with an iron). The collaging was a late addition. It just felt like it needed something more. After adding it, I kept putting down additional paint lines.

After I titled this, all I could think of was the Rolling Stones song of the same name. It doesn’t really fit what I was thinking/feeling for this work, but the title word came before the music memory arrived, so I’m not surprised.

4×4″ marker, watercolor pencils on paper

For this doodle, I began with watercolor pencils, then added some marker lines both over and under more watercolor pencil work.

4×4″ marker, watercolor pencil on paper

Here is today’s doodle—the daily doodle. I could have called this blog the daily doodle. Too late now. For this, I started out using a glass as a template to make the circle, and the edge of a calendar to make the straight lines in from the corners to the edge of the circle. The rest of the drawing is freehand doodling. Try it—you might have fun!

8×6″ acrylic, collage

Someone told me recently that they liked seeing my daily janes—that they didn’t always understand them, but they still liked some of them. Well, I don’t always understand them, either. (And I don’t always like them, but that’s another story.) Today’s daily is a case in point. I don’t know why I picked these things to collage onto this painting, and why I made the marks I did. But, it just seemed right for some reason, so I followed the idea. Strange little piece.