Spring Updates

One of my bike collages made the cover of the local alternative paper for bike week! yay!  

I will have 12 other bike collage pieces on display at Idaho Blueprint and Supply 619 W. Main Street, Boise with an opening on First Thursday June 1. I will also be on hand during the evening making art and selling my famous one of a kind collage cards. Show will hang through the month. 

Four of my assemblage pieces were chosen for the Art Project Boise show "Animals" also opening at First Thursday June 1 at the Owyhee Lobby 1109 W. Main Street in Boise. This show will also hang for the month. 

Time Out 

Mixed Media Assemblage

5 " x 12"

$75

This piece started with the alligator head my daughter brought me back as a souvenir from Florida. The title and piece represent going to work or not having enough time to get your work done. It also represents technology and how it makes our lives "easier" yet somehow feels like one (blog, Facebook, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, tumblr, instagram) more thing to get done. 

Time For The Show

Mixed Media Assemblage

11" x 20"

$125

Victorian Fantasy Steampunky Circus with a flying giraffe, Ringling Brothers circus ticket, a tiger on a tightrope, vintage Waltham pocket watch from Grandpa, vintage buttons from Aunt Rose, game pieces, beads and hand painted designs. 

D is For Ducks

Mixed Media Assemblage

6" x 6"

$35

This is one of a series I created based on each letter of the alphabet. One of my daughters graduated from University of Oregon, home of The Ducks.

Full Moon Barnyard Shenanigans

Mixed Media Assemblage

6" x 6"

$35

We were out camping during a full moon not far from a farm and heard all kinds of animal noises all night just down the hill from camp. This piece captures what could have been going on that night. 

Hope to see you on Thursday at Idaho Blueprint!

Process of a Collage

Much Ado About Nothing 18" x 24"

Step 1 get rid of the white of the canvas by brushing a couple different of colors around, it doesn't matter if you cover the canvas completely. 

Next I went through my stash of ephemera and started cutting, tearing and gluing, tissue paper, flowers from a birthday card, a canvas bracelet that was a gift, parts of a calendar and a business card from an art studio in Hawaii. 

Step 3: More layering of papers with addition of white paint circles and oil pastels overlapping some of the papers to give a more unified feel. The wooden bicycle was later removed... 

...when I found an old page from the Shakespeare play "Much Ado About Nothing" I was making this piece for a show titled  Love and Heartbreak. One of the quotes I used was from Beatrice, "A dear happiness to women, they would have else been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humor for that: I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

For some three dimensionality, I took a completed small piece right off my studio wall named "button candy' and glued it at the bottom slightly to the right of center.  This piece was made with buttons and resin. Other 3D items include a miniature circus horse from my collection, a vial of glitter, a resin heart and a glass blown fish drink stirrer. 

Love and Heartbreak

"R" Mixed Media 16' x 20"

"If You Have a Blank, Expose It" Mixed Media 81/2" x 11"

"Much Ado About Nothing" Mixed Media 18" x 24" 

"Polish Dance" Mixed Media 11" x 14" 

"White Roses" Mixed Media 10' x 10" 

These are my five entries into the Art Project Boise "Love and Heartbreak exhibit" to be held at the Owyhee Hotel Lobby The month of February.  We will see which get chosen. Opening on First Thursday, February 2nd.