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“Sea Visions”
Overview of art making while traveling. . . August 29th, Grand Lake, Colorado Weight and portability played a big part in material choice, maps, pens, pencils, advertisements, paper towels, whites glue,and small watercolor sets. We traveled by boat, train, car, and plane to Italy, Sardinia, France, and Great Britain. After compiling, categorizing, and editing hundreds […]
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Welcome Rocks, Grand Lake: A Collage
Welcome Rocks, Grand Lake As you round the curve coming into Grand Lake, a bank of rocks covered with snow welcomes. I did a quick sketch and created the collage with papers and shapes. Perhaps the sky should be differentiated from the rocks and snow. This collage is a […]
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View From The Window, Grand Lake, A Small Collage
View From The Window A Small Collage From a sketch of my window view, I constructed this collage (5″x7″) using paper from real estate brochures, tissue paper, and oil pastels. What a pleasure every morning it is to see the changes in the mountains! This is a stimulus for larger […]
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Dancing Red Trees An Abstraction
Dancing Red Trees An Abstraction This under painting on canvas was textured with media, papers, leaves, and sanded between layers. As I worked the surface with my brush, red trees danced. I applied seven or eight layers of paint between each sanding to create depth. The negative spaces […]
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In Grand Lake! Abstract Landscape Painting
After a tiring but wonderful move to Colorado, I am settling down to review my last Texas paintings on canvas. I am experimenting with pure abstraction and a dream I had about red trees. None of the pieces are finished and I am still in the incubation phase. Thinking, thinking…so I am posting them as […]
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Sun Setting Grand Lake Collage
Because of the altitude, the sunsets here are spectacular and different in some way everyday. Colors are brilliant and this afternoon, the sun seemed to sink into the mountains. I made a quick sketch and finished the collage (5″x7″) with tissue paper, inks and oil pastels. The Alpen glow disappears into the horizon. This […]
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The Post Office in Grand Lake: A Collage . . . Shapes Colors
The Post Office in Grand Lake A Collage I did a quick sketch of the Grand Lake Post Office and completed a small ( 5″x7″) collage with tissues, ink, pencils blended with alcohol to shape the surrounding Rocky Mountain National Park. This collage is a stimulus for a large painting in my Grand Lake Series.
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A Lake For All Seasons: Abstract Compositions
Grand Lake in Winter Grand Lake in Summer I experimented with tissue paper, paint, and Elmers glue on butcher paper; mountains, snow, brilliant […]
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Green Progression A Non-Figurative Abstraction
Green Progression A Non-Figurative Abstract Final Texas Paintings! I poured, brushed, scraped shades of green and purple paint(water based) on a cotton surface sealed with media. As I worked a clear green progression appeared, linked with its “friend” purple. A study in color and shapes? I started painting with no end in sight. As I […]
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