Schwitter's Legacy is an 18"X24" assemblage created on a gallery-wrap canvas. In choosing its elements, I made a very small dent in my huge collection of vintage ephemera. I used regular-density matte gel medium to apply the papers and heavy-density gel to add the 3D embellishments. The title is tongue-in-cheek since Schwitter himself actually used far fewer elements in most of his…
Time and Space, a mixed-media collage, measures16"X20". Using a stylus and working on a soft surface of stacked newspapers, I embossed aluminum foil with random patterns. After spreading acrylic gel across 300-lb. watercolor paper, I added 2 pieces of foil, pressing them into the wet gel. While the gel remained wet, I stamped it with other textured items, then added paper printed in a foreign language. After…
_Orange Cruciform_ is a 20"X16" mixed-media collage. Using acrylic paints, I covered watercolor paper with successive glazes of warm colors, orange-dominant. After that dried, I added a layer of cool greens and blues; quickly, while this layer was still wet, I splashed the surface with rubbing alcohol. Next I added more texture using several homemade stamps…
Coils is a collage created on 18"X24" gallery-wrap canvas. This collage is comprised of a variety of previously prepared materials; among them is "puff-"painted paper: I made a "puff" mixture of shaving cream and Elmer's Glue, brushed it across Kraft paper, and sprayed it with assorted watercolor paints. After that dried, I spread a protective layer of gloss medium over the…
I created the collage Gold Line on 18"X24" gallery-wrap canvas using a variety of previously prepared papers and other materials; among those other materials were hand-dyed pieces of Sulky Paper Solvy, a water-soluable adhesive material meant to be used as a sewing aid, which I used to create textured paper castings. Also used in this collage was a "mesh sandwich"…
The collage Prayer to Forgive, created on 18"X24" gallery-wrap canvas, started with the addition of pieces of foamboard that I'd cut into geometic shapes; I then painted these with the same mix of pastels that cover the entire base. This collage is comprised of a variety of previously prepared papers and other materials; among those other materials were hand-dyed pieces…
