Henry David is Complete
I finished the portrait of Henry David. It's 8x10 on canvas, mixed media with torn paper collage and acrylic. The background collage...
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Deck Tails
A project of mine that's been percolating for ever so long is "Deck Tails," a book chronicling my wild life with wildlife. It all started...
I'm an Octopus Magnet!
Steeped in octopus imagery, I walked into a hotel (the Kimpton Palladian in Seattle) yesterday to find an extraordinary art installation...
Octopattern
This was a challenge. It was a chance to practice making a repeatable pattern. But man, it takes forever to make all those marks, and...
Henry David
Just started a mixed media torn paper collage and acrylic painting of Henry David, a Virginia cat who went to The Bridge recently. His...
End of the Octopus Line
I'm finishing the last of my current octopus series this week. This is another behemoth: 36"x24" mixed media on stretched canvas. In...
Another Octoartist: Caitlyn Stewart
Caitlyn Stewart is a Maryland artist who also has a few octopi in her portfolio. I've taken a deep dive into octoart to observe how other...
Purple Abstractopus
This week I finished another octopus painting, a mixed-media collage on 36"x24" stretched canvas. The blue area is composed of torn...
Kim Jordan Uses Junk to Make Art...Like Me!
This morning I ran across the work of collage/mixed media artist Kim Jordan. She's in the Pacific Northwest, far south of me in Mt Hood,...
Abstractopus
My third octopus project is a cut paper mixed media collage on 16"x24" canvas. This pushes it into the abstract, celebrating all those...
Octogoodness!
I'm in the process of creating a series of octopus illustrations. This is a cut paper mixed media collage. I am so in love with the...
I'd Like to Be Under the Sea...
My fave movie from last year was "My Octopus Teacher," the tender story of a guy and the sea creature he befriends. I fell in love. This...
And More Fur, Feathers & Fun!
Coincidentally, not long after exploring the work of Elizabeth Hilaire, I found Lisa Morales, who, like Elizabeth and I explores mixed...
Fur, Feathers and Fun!
After I was widowed it hit home for me how my approach to travel would change. My husband and I were extremely close, and for much of the...
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
I have not done a self-portrait since college, when my professor, Fr Sullivan, was unimpressed with my first attempt. He was right; it...
Meet Karla Shuster
I go through periods during which I consume more art by fellow artists than I produce myself. I LOVE ART! It's been a few years...
Vulturine Guineafowl
I was quite happy with the way I rendered the texture of this beast's facial skin. I own a gazillion specialty brushes in Photoshop and...
Horny Hornbill
This week I finished an illustration of the Ground Hornbill. These are REALLY interesting birds. Their enviably long eyelashes are...
Sing. Sing. Sing!
How can you resist leafing through a mid-century Monkey Wards catalog? Its pages were used for the background of this action-packed image...
Meep Meep
OK, this one was fun! When I was in grade school we had to stay with our babysitter--Mrs Bays--after school until my dad got off work at...
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