Oct 26
I’ve been saving these bottlecaps for some unspecified future project for so long that I have quite a collection of them. Finally my idea coalesced into these. I cut circles of either scraps of old book covers (that I made) or pieces of decorative paper, or both. Then I found or made small ornaments to …
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
Apr 10
I started out with a gesso resist technique, using a wash of light brown and a stamped gesso design. Honestly I can’t remember how it looked, except that I made the mistake of thinking I’d draw a picture on the background and use it as a springboard for another design. There’s a school of thought …
Mar 25
Every time I see beeswax collages in the art magazines, it looks really fabulous. Every time I try to replicate it, the results are messy and frustrating. I think it doesn’t help that I’m lacking the correct tools. I use a heat gun and a ceramic dish (I learned not to use metal!) instead of …
Mar 22
This was a learning experience. Once again I started with watercolor paper, and wrote on it with a calligraphy dip pen. I wrote “There were facts about ravens she didn’t want the others to know.” Once again it became quickly apparent that plain writing on a white background is BORING. When I’d finished with the …
