daily janes

4×4″ acrylic

I had another large paint chip that I used for the paper on this one. Again, the color is not quite right in this image, but it’s the closest I could come. Abstract, mysterious, random, focused, evolving process.

5×7″ acrylic

This is the second piece in the sketchbook I occasionally use. This just evolved; I had no idea in mind, just kept painting and adding. Strange—the result, not the process. It was difficult to get the right color in the photograph, too. This image doesn’t quite capture it.

4×4″ collage

I used a large paint chip for the background support and glued on cut up strips from two souvenir travel postcards, I believe from Hong Kong (oops, hope you didn’t want to keep those, Matt!). Look, I made this for you, Matt! 😉

5.5×5″ acrylic on shade

I have to say, I’ve never painted on this kind of window shade before. (This is a shade sample from a major window covering company.) It has been inhabiting a desk drawer for a few years. In my cleaning-and-sorting phase, I brought a bunch of these up to my studio not knowing how I might use them. This time, I scraped acrylic paint in layers on the outstretched sample. I was going to take a second photo when it was folded back up again, but it doesn’t look that interesting when compressed (and also, it keeps unfolding back open!). So, let me know if you want your shades painted (ha!)!

5×7″ acrylic on watercolor paper

This is a layer upon layer scraped painting, playing with opaque and transparent, horizontal and vertical.

digital photo

Here is my second nostalgic photo of one of my old matchbox cars with trailer. This is the same horse trailer as yesterday being pulled by what I think might be a white mustang. It wasn’t really about the models of the cars for me, I just liked making towns and villages and ranches and worlds, and driving the cars pulling things like horse and motorcycle and boat trailers.

Like every other young girl on the planet, it seems, I loved horses and really wanted my own horse. This (as well as the West family of western dolls and horses) was my way to live that in a very small way. That and very occasionally going to the stables nearby and riding a bit.

I used the “film grain” filter on this photo.

digital photo

Today and tomorrow, I am posting a couple of photos I took of some old toys of mine. Some of my favorite toys growing up (at least for awhile) were matchbox cars. Today’s is a photo of the little horse trailer with two horses that I could pull behind a couple of different cars with hitches. I used the Adobe “dark strokes” filter with this photo to make it a little more interesting and “arty.” Ah, nostalgia.

5×8″ acrylic, collage, colored pencil

This piece is the first page of a watercolor sketchbook and I’m leaving it in the book for now. I originally stopped earlier with a bright solid background behind the collaged-on paint chips. Then I decided to write the title phrase repetitively on top of the background and took photos of it. But I decided it was not quite done, so I painted a transparent (zinc) white over the piece. Still not enough. I brushed over it a couple more times adding some opaque (titanium) white in with the zinc. Then I re-photographed it on the cement front porch. And now…it appears to be done. For now.