I've recently built my own 12×12 studio space out of used shipping pallets and old real estate signs. My space is made of over 80% recycled materials. We got the insulation from a church remodel and almost all the building materials out of a burn pile at a sign shop. This is just a…
A mixed media canvas I made on Jan. 1st. Worked out the technique for the background and texture. Combines paint, gel medium, distress ink, hand dyed fibers, found objects, wire, and tape.
Playing with buttons from my mom's old collection. Loved the tin litho Cracker Jack button and had to make something with it. Paired it with these red white and blue buttons from the sixties and worked with wire wrapping.
This piece has many layers including an old book cover base, collage sheet music, varnish, crackle medium, acrylic paint washes and found objects. It symbolizes the burdens that we carry and are unaware of.
This is the fabric I designed for the CPS Fabric Swatch Exchange. It was tea dyed then torn into squares and scrunched while wet then sprinkled with Instant Coffee crystals. I then placed each 9 inch square in the microwave for 1 minute to dry it. When dry I rinsed the fabrics and then ironed…
My Tin Fairy Assemblage Doll is made of many different things, a piece of an old lamp as a base, doll head and arms, old rusty tin cup, old tin oil can lid, old tin salad tongs hammered flat as wings, tattered pearls, pieces of an old rhinestone necklace, wire, torn strips of hand dyed…
Every good witch should have her travel case in which to carry her most important things, her spell book, her most recent potion, and a few key ingredients and scrolls. This is an altered cigar box made just for the holidays fast approaching. The twilight hour will be here before you know it. Features…
This art journal is made up of many different vintage fabrics, altered book covers, paint, stamping, stitching, collage and imagination. The cover is a mixture of collage, assemblage and a distressed paint technique I'm working on. The word "Artisan" is a vintage language card set behind a piece of an old watch and some…
This art book is based on the daydreams of a creative soul. The casing is a vintage handmade copper box embellished with a collage of old papers painted and stamped and dry embossed. An antique brass pin was used to frame a frozen charlotte doll set on top of an old German book page with…
