Tag: Text

Woodpecker

Mixed media picture based on water colour paper, with acrylic paint, permanent pen, aquarelle pencil and cotton scrim. The words are my attempt at a haiku.

Surface Treatment Journal

all these pages start with surface treatment mini-experiments. This one is gel resist, koi watercolor and distress ink.  failed postcard art collaged in (the face)  Stamps

Do What You Love- mixed media painting

"Do What You Love" is inspired by my passion for art. This piece is 12×12 inches and is a mixture of acrylic paint, text from a book, paint pens and water-soluble pencil. This painting is part of my year-long bird inspired series.  

Freedom To Be- mixed media painting

This 36×40 inch painting started out as an example for a workshop I was going to teach. The class was cancelled (due to the fact that I am moving) and I decided to experiment and play on what was already there. I had so much fun and the process was very freeing. I incorporated water,…

Listen to Your Heart- acrylic painting with collage bits

This abstract painting incorporates paper pieces collaged throughout as well as paint pen and water-soluable pencil. The focus is positive and happy. I added the words "listen" and "heart knows" because I believe that we have all of the answers inside if we just pause long enough to listen to our hearts.

Bella and the Crows

This  mixed media/collage painting incorporates found vintage imagery with acrylic paint and original ephemera..12x12x 1/2 " in dimension on stretched canvas with black painted sides

scrapbook for stitch

This scrapbook for stitch has a quilted cover incorporating many different techniques such as discharge paste text, free-motion stitch, digitally stitched lettering, patching and quilting.  Inside are fabric pages on which to add my stitched samples, try out ideas and add textured embroidery.

Love Write: a magnetic mimicry

  I decided to take my personal motto and see how many words I could form from it and then arrange it into a poem. The red squares remind me of magnetic poetry. The composed poem is punctuated with a rose. Then I used photo editing software to alter my piece. I used the instant…

Nothing left to lose, stages 1-3

This image includes the first three developmental stages for my visual journal pages, "Nothing left to lose".  I first stained the pages by soaking them in coffee, tea, and a small amount of black acrylic ink.  Since I soaked many pages at once, it left the intriguing patterned marks on the pages.  I then glued…