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.
6×8″ mixed media
I was thinking about this last night, trying to think of a way to express my outrage and grief. Again. And then I just felt tired. This is my unsatisfactory effort for today. I drew the lettering onto the page with pencil, then went over the lines with marker. I painted and splattered paint onto the translucent vellum, then glued on black construction paper lines. I affixed the vellum to the lettered paper.
I do not understand why one person’s “right” so outweighs others’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I do not understand why legislators cannot summon the will to do ANYTHING helpful and why they refuse to confront the fear-mongering and bluster. Enough is enough is enough is enough.
5.5×8.5″ acrylic on paper
Sometimes I keep adding paint or finishes and it goes too far and it’s lost. Sometimes the last thing adds flair or makes it redeemable. The blockprinting in red is what made this for me. Then I started seeing animals and other images in what used to be a sea of nothingness. You may still see a sea of nothingness, and that’s okay, too!