It Takes A Village: Mixed-Media

 Recently, I completed a canvas of a village and liked the look and decided to do another, larger village. 16"x 20" 1.5" raised canvas using, paper, acrylic, pen and ink. I started with 2"x 6" strips of paper but decided it was too busy when finished - so once again, I painted over the entire canvas and made the field work with larger blocks of color - much better. I used paint with stamps, templates and a roller plus the side of an old credit card to achieve the look I was wanting. I love to shadow with ink and water brushes and I was busy shadowing the entire piece.

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Wings & white houses - MIxed-media

 Another butterfly canvas -- gone BIG. I love mixing up my scrap papers and paint with pen accents to create something fun and colorful. 12" x 12" canvas.

This simple canvas had many starts with only one finish --- I'm not much on shabby painting, but when I do step out of my box I have a lot of fun. I'm going to do this one again on a larger canvas -- stay tuned. 12" x 16" canvas.

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Mixed-Media: Black Birds on Quilts

Another Mixed-Media: 20" x 16" canvas using acrylic paints, scrapbook paper scraps, ink and pen. This is a painting lift from Debbi Hubb. I love her whimsy and replicated one of her pieces on a canvas that had 2 previous paintings on it that did not work out -- this one did. I'm going to do another and change it a bit going horizontal in red, white and blues with 3 quilts and chickens topping the spread. A fun exercise to do. 

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Recent paintings --- Mixed Media

I painted this piece for my own home --- IF I did it over, I'd change a few things, but for now it handsomely hangs on one of my walls (I'm running out of walls - but not out of ideas to paint).

I did this piece for my son, Scott (www.scottmansfield.com). He is a fantastic photographer and I borrowed one of his photos and painted it my style. It is a scene from South Dakota and a road trip we (both sons and mom) took a few years back. We were visiting Wounded Knee and took a road north towards the Badlands. We drove and drove through fields of golden grasslands, blue skies and emptiness surrounding us until we came to a lonely tree in the distance. Of course with a photographer in the car and the picture perfect scene at our side, we stopped. I love the photograph and wanted to give back to the photographer that has shown me how to see the beauty around me.

 
This piece was for my other son, Bruce. I started out with a drawn, wind-blown tree to the right of the canvas and the more I worked it the more I hated it. So a do over was called for. The raised center circle that encapsulates the tree made for a great centerpiece and showcases the tree of life that I wanted to give my son. This is a mixed media piece using dictionary pages (under the brown bottom section), a hand-cut tree from cardstock and shadowed with ink pens and paint. I only used sponges to paint this piece and I like how it all turned out.