Perfect Pairings

Mixing it up in the Studio

Spring takes it’s sweet time coming to New England. Waiting for warmer weather was time for some creative exploration. Primarily a painter, I like to mix it up once in a while to experiment with other mediums. Let me show you what I was up to over the winter in my cozy studio.
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Small color explorations came first using my creamy oil painting sticks. Mixing the succulent colors directly on the paper was the challenge. Color as well as the textures created is the fascination here.

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I pulled out my Gelli plate next. Using this plate is an easy and fun way to produce monoprints  without a press. Using tissue and rice papers, working with organic and found materials, these papers can produce the most detailed patterns and textures. The delicacy and transparency of these papers is wonderful on their own or used as collage elements.

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Color. Imprinted paper. Time to dive into my paper stash and design some collages. I have oodles of papers I covet and collected over the years. Beautiful little snippets with saturated colors of every hue, monoprinted rice papers with intricate patterns and designs, crops from works on paper.  I can’t throw them away!

They are perfect for collage, so I decided to begin a sweet little series for  Instagram challenge. Working mostly in pairs I challenged myself to create and post a finished collage every day. It was so much fun!

Hers’s one all dressed up in a standard 8x10in frame.
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Take a peek at the collection that will be available Thursday May 6th at 4pm. Bookmark your favorites! 
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