Mixed Media

With the art shop being shut due to covid lockdowns, I have been experimenting more in early 2021 with collage pictures again, and making those on canvas boards. I paint a layer of black gesso on those before I apply any of the paint and collage elements. Sometimes the ink and paint can be dried quicker with use of a heat gun, some take hours or even a day or so to dry out before the next layer can be applied. I love the slower process of this work, leaving the pieces to dry on my art table gives me time to think about what I could do next, or not do! The piece titled Homecoming was given as a housewarming present to friends of mine, and Untitled is a work in progress.

Homecoming	Untitled

Art journal covers	Reflections 2	Untitled

 

My love of art in the first place came from using watercolour paints, and most of my high school artwork was in this medium. I am now thoroughly enjoying making pictures in lots of sizes with a range of watercolour paints from different manufacturers (Sennelier and Daniel Smith are my favourite) and experimenting with added textures with salt, gesso and sand, acrylic inks and clingfilm. A sheet of that covering wet watercolours, and slightly scrunched, will make all sorts of marks and creases into which drops of acrylic ink, or more watercolours, can be made to run on and through parts of the picture. This is really great fun, and here are a few examples of small recent pieces. They are approximately postcard size, and framed in either black, white or wood frames. 

Autumn Shore	Bronze Skyline	Iridescent Shore	Morning Fields

 

Mulberry Fields	Rose Madder Fields	Saguaro Shore	Saguaro Skyline

 

Sapphire Shore	Sapphire Skyline	Topaz Skyline	Umber Skyline

 

Umber Fields	Umber Skyline II