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New work!  Just completed three collaged Buddhas on 6x6 gallery wrapped canvases using similar collaging techniques as those I use to create my note cards and bookmarks.

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My one of a kind hand painted note cards and bookmarks are rich, deep and tactile works of art made with textural collage elements and metallics.

Second collage on 2.5 x 3.5" card.  Created with embossing powders, acrylics, oil pastels, metallic and iridescent pens, trimmed with gold mica flakes.

My first attempt at collage.  This collage is on a 2.5" x 3.5" card, otherwise known as an Artist Trading Card.  I will be experimenting with many different collage techniques in this size.  I have wanted to branch out into collage for quite some time. Hopefully I will be able to eventually apply my expanded skills and knowledge to full size collage work that is distinctive and unique.  "Metallic Buddha" was created by embossing on metal tape and using alcohol inks, gold mica flakes medium, and metallic pens. It is definitely strange, but not a bad first effort I think.

Four 5x7 hand textured panels featuring the same night sky, lightning and grassy field.  In each piece the viewer sees the back of a woman.  Each of these paintings represent a search for something. They were completed mostly with acrylic and oil pastel.  I intend to have prints, note cards and  bookmarks of them soon.  Please send me your comments.  I would very much appreciate your insights on this new work. Click on New Work! Night Sky Series to view all four paintings.

Check out newly designed bookmarks cropped from my original mixed media paintings.  Choice of bookmarks with or without beads.  Great for book clubs.

I have filled many journals with my thoughts, angst, and revelations about art.  Where I am (often stuck), where I'm going, how I'm getting there. I love to write -it is great therapy for an artist.  But blogging?  I keep resisting it.  It's the thing to do if one wants an increased internet presence, or so I'm told. But I am a private person.  I am not an internet age person.  I do not feel comfortable living my private thoughts in public.  But beyond that, why should anyone care about my private struggles and revelations?  Except to me, I think it's pretty boring stuff.  I prefer my artwork to speak for itself.  It is what is unique about me.  It is an expression of who I am.  The rest is just process-- something for me to muddle through. Have to confess, I just don't get the whole blogging thing.

I have always been interested in interpretations of the Family Album, Depression Era portraits.  It seems that everyone senses a life story in and behind the faces. I would love to hear your thoughts about these people: who you think they are, what their life experiences have been...It also seems that everyone is attracted to one of these people in particular.  Which one is your favorite and why?  Go to Art Prints or Note Cards galleries and zoom in on each portrait to get a more intimate look.