OK, I clearly needed to get that collage out of my system, because after I finished it, I managed to work happily on the background paper. The giveaway package is not complete yet, but I am posting a sneak preview of a corner of the background paper to whet your appetite.
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This is a little background I made today for the summer. The base wash is a pastel blue, with layers of yellow, pastel green, phtalo blue and phtalo green—the idea was to capture the colours of the sea. I am going to use it for a collage, but haven’t quite decided what will go with [...]
Maybe it’s because I am craving a picnic on a lush green meadow with a glass of lemonade, but this is what I felt inspired to make today—a simple, refreshing background with layers of green acrylic washes over a thick layer of gesso. For some reason, though, it looks like it has measles in this [...]
OK, I just couldn’t leave it alone. When I started experimenting with tags for a painted tag swap a while ago, I made a little tag that I wasn’t happy with. It wasn’t a big deal since it was just an experiment, but it bugged me.
I went on to make the tags for the swap, [...]
There’s a lot on my mind these days. I feel I am at crossroads with many opportunities in front of me, which is both scary and exciting. But it also means that, while I am weighing options, I am not spending as much time as I’d like making things. This is a collage in the [...]
