A Little Series

I do believe this might be my first successful series, I start out thinking I'll do more along a certain theme but the next one just doesn't seem to happen.  Go figure.  They are also the smallest thing I've ever painted.

These are a series of backgrounds done on watercolour paper, always love doing these because I just have at it with lush colour, various spray and texturing techniques.  While these dry, I lay out some wax-paper and rip up random pieces of tissue paper that I lay on the wax paper then out comes my watercolour and acrylic inks and my water bottle sprayer.  It's always a delight to see how the colours bloom and blend and bleed.  When everything is dry I can then take the painted tissue paper and begin to weave them onto my background paper creating the loose effect of mountain ranges in this case.  The most challenging part for me is to then get them cut and glued onto my canvases!  Straight lines and careful matches will always challenge me :-)

Today I start the painting process on a couple of mixed-media pieces that I have prepped this week.

Happy Canada Day celebrations to my fellow Canucks! 

The Start of a Series

I've got a new piece on the easel, one that I hope will be the first in a series called Essence of Opal.  Thanks to my Aussie friends I've been inspired by the raw opal being mined in their beautiful country.  In fact, Kel used the title of the series to describe a previous work I did, which got me to thinking... I've never done a series before and I'm hoping that I won't fall flat on my face with this proposed one :-)  I've a lot I want to experiment with on this piece, kind of feeling my way along, but it's a good start for now.

"Doing something more than once is often thought of as being uninventive and uninspired.  Repeats signal substance rather than dullness."  Michele Cassou

Oh I do love when those fun packages show up at the post office!  I'm drooling over all the possibilities these new papers will bring to my art. I can't create fast enough to fulfill the need to try them all out!

Happiness Found!

Happiness can come wrapped around a big ole cardboard tube!  I just picked up at the post office, my first array of decorative papers to use in my art.  Up until now, I've made do with tissue paper.  There simply is nothing around here that sells the transparent papers that would work well in my art.

So who needs new cloths or shoes when theirs art supplies to be had!

You may have noticed the different background on my blog.  My daughter, Olivia did her camera magic where she takes my one large abstract and turns into a dozen different digital abstracts.  She has a knack for finding the sections that in macro become stand alone abstracts. How cool is that! I'll share some of those in my next post.