“Drawing with scissors…” work #5. Henri Matisse, near the end of his life & career, started creating art images from gouache painted pieces of paper & then cutting those colorful pages into shapes & designs. That technique has been truly inspiring to me. Really enjoying playing with my construction paper cutouts.
This is a new piece. Cut construction paper on white card stock. Learning to make paper do what I used to count on my brushes for.
This is a mixed media watercolor and acrylic on paper. This piece came together nicely and as always with some happy little artistic serendipities along the way
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A new piece. Charcoaled out the lines then painted them in black. Fed color in slowly working a fairly limited palette.
Another new digital media abstract art piece. Wish time allowed for actual brushes & paint. Soon I hope, but until then…
Passion is essential to leading and living a fulfilling life. For me, there is nothing I put my hand to that I am more passionate about than art. I love painting. I am a completely untrained, self-taught painter but I have made it my full intention to learn as much as I can about the art of painting and to grow as a painter. My most recent work represents a departure from my most recent season of kind of strict pen and ink and watercolor geometric abstract pieces. I embrace this as moving into a season of growth as an artist/painter. I would say I have experienced this transition numerous times since setting out to paint in 2013.
This painting seeks to incorporate a bold, even unorthodox use of color, and the playfulness of line, against a backdrop of unconventional shapes that emerged onto the page rather than being there as the result of careful placement and planning.
(watercolor & ink on cold-pressed paper, Aug. 2015)
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