ALTERED POSTCARD Art

The semester is almost over and I am looking at more time to do art. I have been taking postcards that come in the mail and altering them with mixed media collage... Creating a series of Mythic Cards... Here are a few that I made this past week.

Spirit Dancer in Flight

although feeling under the weather, I made it to my studio and low and behold this is what came through. Just heating up the wax and playing with imagery...and then something powerful and archetypal manifested in my art. I love this piece...

this mixed media encaustic is 8"x8" on the back of a cigar box. I have fallen in love with cigar boxes again.

CLASS ARTWORK - Mixed Media & Beyond

Both of the classes that I teach at Santa Rosa Junior College have been working on mixed media collage projects. They all turned out so interesting that I have decided to post them. Here are some of the final pieces...





This assignment evolved out of a 6 week segment devoted to mandalas.



All of these mixed media mandalas were developed as Empowerment Shields.










Each one of these art pieces are powerful, unique and filled with pesonal meaning for the students.

A Day of Encaustic Painting...

I attended a studio workshop of encaustic painting at SRJC this Sat...taught by Kathleen Thompson. I took this class about 5 years ago when I first got involved with this engrossingly tactile art form. It was good just to work in a studio atmosphere with others experimenting and play and push myself in new ways.. Heres what I did on Sat.

Playing With Collage

Here are 3 new collages the first two are in process...and will definitely change over time...



OPENING THE BOOK OF BLESSINGS... is complete

I will post changes later....

Evolution Of a Mandala

Here is the ongoing process of the Spring Mandala that I started at the last Mandala Retreat that I facilitated with Patricia.











The Finished mandala....

Studio Time

"A man's work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, throught the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."...Albert Camus









I have an unabashedly open 7 days ahead of me due to Spring Break. I am excited and ready to get some art made in my studio.

Here are some photos of my studio...where I not only do my own artwork, but work both privately and in small groups doing art process experieinces...

Fred BAB's has a wonderful poster that says "Go To Your Studio and Make Art!"


This posting is a reminder to me, as well as sharing with the universe at large, to just go make ART!!!