New Owl Art

I love to work in series and owls are a favorite subject of mine that I return to often. In this latest series I am combining painting in acrylic with collage of vintage papers of which I have an over abundance! Late last year I did this one:

A barn owl in a night time moon lit flight, all the feathers in the wings were individually cut from vintage papers and applied with Gouldens Soft Gel. The painting was done with liquid acrylics and the stars white acrylic ink.

It took me a long time to organize my thought process with this one and I kept trying to set it up precisely beforehand but kept stumbling around with bits and bobs of cut paper floating everywhere.

Finally I settled on simply cutting a few and attaching, then moving to the next few until the wing shape was completed. And I had a wonderful time making it!

For this next one, my process was the same, but with the addition of some pressed flower petals that were gifted me. As soon as I saw them I knew that I wanted to collage with them.

The underside of a barn owl is very white but the top of the wing is a beautiful shade of brown and the papers and petals worked together beautifully.

The soft light of a crescent moon guides this owl in his night time hunt.

Instead of astrology symbols in the sky I used different moon glyphs that I researched.

This barn owl is indeed standing tall and proud and assured in the passing of time.

This painting was done to participate in the Arts Mid Hudson Show that opens tomorrow night called,

Artists Respond to Poetry

 

https://artsmidhudson.org/

Beautiful Autumn Days.

This first week of Autumn has been a busy one!

We love taking out grandson out on nature walks, he could live outside all the time.

 

 

This timid visitor stopped by in the afternoon one day.

 

 

 

 

Apple picking here in the Hudson Valley is a must and this variety of

apple that we picked is called a SnapDragon and is absolutely the best 

tasting one IMHO, lol!

 

 

 

 

 Friday was prepping for a demo on collage that I was doing for 

Arts Mid-Hudson at Bethel Woods on Saturday morning. There is a festival there this weekend

called Mkng Festival and there are many workshops to attend, music to listen

to, foods to eat, and vendors to purchase from.

 

 

 

 

 There is nothing prettier than a sunny morning, in autumn, in the Hudson Valley!

You can't really get the full scope of the top two pictures,

but that is the field where the Woodstock Music Festival was held.

 

Soon the leaves in our area will be in full glorious color, time for hot toddys,

apple pies, and warm fires.

 

 

I Am Having Too Much Fun Building Inventory!

 

 

Last year I started playing around with collage work. I used prints of my art that just weren't good enough on their own, but added in with vintage papers and embellishments, additional painting and some quotes from very clever people unique artwork is born.

 

Each one of these canvases are different works of art that

 

although seemingly mass produced,

 

are thoughtfully and delightfully created.

Bits of ephemera, fabric, prints of artwork all join together with acrylic paint.

Finished off with varnish and all set to hang!

Newest Collage Work

A bit of a mess going on here, but what fun!

I have been working my way through a wonderful book entitled "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It is a 12 week process that will probably take me longer because I do want to get the most out of it and not have it turn into another time stresser.

I have been finding myself to be less afraid of making messes. After all I am from the 'old school' Commercial Art trained, nothing messy, no ink blots, smudges, etc. This experiment of mine is to give myself the freedom to make a mistake and turn that into art that is pleasing to me.

In the process of printing up my water color and ink paintings, there are a lot of prints that cannot be sold until I get the setting right on the printer. So using the seconds and some vintage papers and ephemera, acrylics, stamps and other found items I had a good old time!