I have been attempting a new series inspired by my COVID walks through back alleys and deserted park areas by creating a series of diptychs that are a dialogue between the natural (tree bark) and the unnatural (urban decay). I posted … Continue reading A Dialogue Between Natural / Unnatural Textures
I have been in the process of working on a Flame Tulip / Fire Dancer for a long time. Some Flame Tulips for inspiration…Flame Tulips combined with Fire Dancers using magazine collage. Watercolour painting of Flame Tulips combined with Fire … Continue reading Flame Tulip / Fire Dancer Painting
When I was looking up Georgia O’Keeffe in Wikipedia I found this painting called Blue and Green Music that she painted sometime in-between 1919 and 1921. from Wikipedia: Painted in her New York years upon the idea that music could be translated … Continue reading A Collage of Nordic Music Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe
Scarlet, bright red with a hint of orange, is a colour associated with blood, courage, passion and heat. This ‘mood board’ contains all my own photos, reading left to right, top to bottom: Gears at the Cannery in Steveston, BC; … Continue reading In a Scarlet Mood
Ripped layers of posters revealing older layers of posters revealing even older older layers of posters. Poster overload. Main St poster overload. WE ripped poster. On the Drive – pink poster overload no. 11. Ripped posters in Vancouver’s Japantown. Main … Continue reading Layers upon Layers – Ripped Poster Art
A quick look at ‘beige’ in Wikipedia shows that, in spite of being a colour with a reputation for being boring, it actually has an interesting history. Currently ‘beige’ is described as a light grayish-yellow brown. The word ‘beige’ originally comes … Continue reading Beige, a Bland, Boring Colour that Starts with B
Examples of ‘fragile’ papers include tissue, rice paper and toilet paper/kleenex. Tissue Paper Relatively delicate papers tear easily when soaked in acrylic medium. To prevent this, a thicker acrylic gel is applied to the surface of the painting, the delicate tissue paper … Continue reading Adding More Texture to Mixed-Media Paintings with Tissue and Other ‘Fragile’ Papers
Some artists use collage to to create their images. Artist’s work in a Madrid gallery features torn paper.One morning I wandered around the industrial wasteland of NDSM in Amsterdam, an area not without its charms, especially if you like graffiti collaged with … Continue reading Semi-Accidental On-Purpose Collage
At one point I started putting together collages of magazine images with the idea of using them as inspiration. This was the first collage I did – I called it Brazil. Magazine collage of Granville Island in Vancouver which was … Continue reading Using Magazine Collage for Inspiration
Salmon spawning in Yard Creek, BC. My first attempt at a magazine collage used a salmon dinner for the ‘salmon’ part. Then I did a page of sketches. And another magazine collage. And a bunch of watercolour paintings based on the … Continue reading A Selection of Artworks Inspired by Salmon Spawning
