daily janes

7.5×7.25″ collage

Here, I collaged several paint chips onto matboard. I messed up the very last piece I glued on, but there was no going back. Letting go, slowly….

9×6.25″ acrylic, collage

This was supposed to be two daily janes. It was totally going to be two daily janes. Two days of dailies, done! Until I stacked one on top of the other to take downstairs and snap the photos. Then I said, ooooh, I kind of like how they look together! And some of the paint lines on one seemed to magically match up with edges or paint lines on the other. And then it was all over. I glued the one on paper on top of the one on matboard. And now I have to do another daily jane to replace the one that became one with the other. Dang. 😉

3.5×5.25″ acrylic

This started out as a slice of melon from memory (since I had already cut up the whole thing). I made a wrong turn that the art judge didn’t feel could be remedied, so I set the painting aside. With more brushwork and cotton-ball-work and colors and softening, now it’s just a pleasing (to me) set of shapes and colors. The judge has been quieted for the most part—at least enough to post this for you.

5.25×3.5″ acrylic

The last in this latest mini-series of acrylic block prints and brushwork combinations. Every time I look at this, I see a dog head with a patch eye…thus, the title.

5.25×3.5″ acrylic

Still playing with print blocks, brayer impressions, and brushes…and acrylic.

5.25×3.5″ acrylic

Another new combination of block prints, brayer impression, and brushwork, all using acrylic paint.

5.25×3.5″ acrylic prints

I used acrylic paint with some old and new block prints, a brayer impression, and a some brushwork to make this piece. I cut the “bubbles” block today. It’s always fun to use these little blocks in new combinations.

5×3.5″ collage, acrylic

Almost all of these colors are pieces of dried acrylic paint from my palette paper collaged onto another piece of paper. I used a tiny bit of wet paint to fill in a couple of white spaces I didn’t like, but very little.

6.5×5.75″ acrylic

I scraped layers of acrylic on a piece of matboard, then printed a block print (existing) over the top. A brighter light helps one see the textures and layers in this one.

5.5×3.5″ acrylic, collage on matboard

I know, this isn’t a modern wind turbine like the ones I love to see along the roads in Iowa, but the triangular pieces of paper I had worked better as a nod to the old farm windmills. I collaged the papers over a small scraped acrylic painting.