Category: My Art

Here is my new finished collage: Flute Player with World Tree. I started with an arrangement that I planned to stick to! And I planned to stay with the basic white paper background in the mock-up seen on the right. Well that didn’t happen! I changed the color scheme and a few other things along…

I just answered an online question, and decided to save my own reply about mounting collage. This is a brief how-to adhere, seal, and mount paper collage work. But first a peek at my most recent collage efforts in the studio. The first piece below is now complete. The next one is ready to assemble,…

Definitions elude me: collage or mixed medai? I have no idea when to say collage and when to say mixed media! And really does it matter? Not in my book… So I am working mostly with paper at the moment, using parts of my original artwork. Some are digital prints, some are hand pulled prints,…

When is finished? These four quite different mixed media pieces may all be finished, if I can just keep my hands OFF them! Sometimes I don’t know when to stop. At least I have some work happening in the studio, although much of it is continuation and completions. I am using older works as parts,…

I have managed to work a few small pieces in the past few days. This post is just to display what is new in the studio. I have two new foils of older work, and the completion and presentation of an older monoprint. So not really so new, but at least I am working! I…

When you accumulate many bits & pieces, many partially finished art attempts, duplicate images, and early artworks you no longer love, turn to the art of collage! Of course it is a fuzzy line between mixed media art and the art of collage. When I layer a few embellishments onto a drawing, photo, or painting,…