Journal: Reporter journal.
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This blank journal has front and back collaged covers made with copies and transfers from the doodles and jottings out of my actual notebooks from when I was a newspaper reporter.
I would frequently find myself sitting in meetings for hours on end, meetings with little happening but with interesting people to look at and caricature. I also found myself sketching bizarre stream-of-consciousness kinds of images based on some random comment or phrase from a meeting that clicked in my head and came out through the pen in my hand.
The covers are heavy-weight art paper with collaged imagery and decorative papers. Using watercolor, various papers, acrylic mediums, and ink, I transformed the basic pen and ink doodles into a colorful and complete image.
The binding is a basic plastic coil binder.
Inside, the journal is filled with a variety of papers that I have on hand in my art supplies. From lined to blank to sketch to colored to graph to tracing paper, you'll find each page to be a new experience, whether you intend to use the journal as a place to write, sketch, or glue your own ephemera inside. There are also two medium-size manila envelopes worked into the binding at the front and back, perfect for storing loose papers or notes.
The journal is 10" tall, 7.25" wide, and .25" thick. Variations in the cover, paper, etc. are part of its hand-made nature and are intentional. The cover is not smooth, but is an actual collage with varying thickness and texture.
Price: $25
Labels: collage, for writers, gift, journals, mixed media, stationery, watercolor, whimsical
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Art scrap bag.
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Each bag contains a variety of decorative paper, ribbon, art paper, string, tags, embellishments, and other fun things to get you started making collage or cards or whatever you want.
These items are the same materials I use and are pulled from my own large "stash" of all the things I save and later use in the art you see on this site. You may also get a few actual hand-drawn and painted bits from paintings I've torn up or other art and sketches now disassembled.
The contents of each bag varies; please let me choose what goes inside. Each bag comes with a hand-lettered tag and "instructions" on how to have fun with what's inside.
Price: $10
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Eyes are Dry
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You can read more about this painting here, including the inspiration behind it as well as a step-by-step photograph pictorial of how it was created.
Materials: Collage, ink, acrylic, gesso, charcoal, paper
Size: 14" x 22"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $90
Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media
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Inner Machine
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Maybe I read and watch too much Science Fiction, but the concept of the "inner machine" is one that rolls about in my mind.
This is the visual depiction of the idea. The "brain" of this painting is made up of the acrylic peelings from my old palettes, full of swirls and dobs, very much a high-raised three dimensional effect, adhered by pouring clear acrylic medium onto the painting. What this means is that you can't simply lay a piece of glass over this painting; you'll need a mat or other method to raise it from the surface. It also means it looks very unusual up close.
That's the inner machine I'm talking about.
Materials: Acrylic paint, water crayon, ink on paper
Size: 22" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $90
Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media
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Kristi
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My friend Kristi often found herself the unfortunate guinea pig for me during college. Her face can be found in a number of my drawings and in my sketchbook. If I needed a model, there she was.
This painting is an abstraction on her face many times over.
Materials: Ink, acrylics, collage, charcoal and gesso
Size: About 30" X 44"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $100
Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media
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Greyhound Jester
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Greyhounds are such characters, almost like pranksters, some of them. Hence, the idea of a jester.
Using scumbling techniques, I created this caricatured greyhound image, giving it a hazy look to the originally bright and hard-edged colors. There are two collage sections, originally part of another painting that I destroyed and used parts of in other artworks.
Materials: Acrylic, collage, acrylic mediums, gesso on paper
Size: 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD
Labels: animals, collage, greyhounds, mixed media, paintings, sold, whimsical
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Old World Map Collage
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This collage was made from copies of explorer maps I found in an old textbook.
I created a collage on a Masonite panel, my goal being one of making the final product look aged, with a slight hint of color to the maps as if they had been hand tinted.
Which, in a sense, the were.
The entire surface of the completed collage is coated with a glossy acrylic finish.
One point of interest is that the backside of this painting has a small abstract painting on it. In the grand tradition of reusing or painting over old art, I recycled this masonite panel and worked on the opposite side of an old piece of art. In a sense, you get two paintings for the price of one.
Materials: Paper collage, acrylic paint, acrylic medium on .25" thick Masonite panel
Size: 6" X 8.75"
Other: Shipped without frame
Price: $40
Labels: collage, mixed media, ships
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Roots
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On a week-long horseback trip to the mountains in Wyoming, I took many photographs of the nature surrounding the trail. One of these photos was of a large root clump, the tree having long fallen down with only an upturned section of roots remaining.
I wanted to capture the tangled sense of wildness through the use of a variety of materials, hoping that not only the final visual result would depcit the roots, but also that the foundations and the means of building up the painting would help in that goal, also.
The colors are rich, warm purples and oranges, with criss-crossing textures that become their own minature mountain valleys upon closer inspection. Though abstract in nature, the result is very warm and not confusing.
Materials: Charcoal, rice paper, acrylic paint and mediums, and gesso on BFK Rives paper
Size: 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $100
Labels: abstract, collage, mixed media, nature
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Denatured Book: Ship
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This denatured book features a parchment-look cover with an aged map and a statement that "the world is covered by freedom, for it is covered by the sea." Though it may seem strange for a person very much land-locked in a plains state, the idea of endless water seems to be the epitome of freedom.
But wait a minute. Looks are deceiving. In a small glass bottle towards the bottom of the inside diorama, a small note reads "Save me." Even in our own search for freedom, we become bound.
The wooden display case is finished to looked aged and connected to the sea, with the backdrop a collection of book interior pages.
Materials: Mixed media (book, acrylic paints and mediums, collage, wood, etc.)
Size: 16" x 22" x 3" (exterior frame measurements)
Other: Comes with wooden display frame; book is easily removed.
Price: $800
Labels: art show stories, books, collage, maps, ships
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Denatured Book: Rodent
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I still enjoy reading books meant for children or young adults simply because their story lines seem purer in their goal to free the mind to imagine. There are no obligatory elements or controls often seen in adult literature.
A popular source of material for children's books, surprisingly, are rodents. Ralph and the Motorcycle, The Secret of NIHM, and so on. For some reason, we find it a great source of entertainment to envision the secret lives of animals smaller than us, little worlds existing in our gardens and walls.
This "Rodents" book was meant to join the great collection of rodent-themed literature, offering the viewer a look into the varying lives of rich mice vs. poor mice, and who can afford the better contractor.
Materials: Mixed media (acrylics, wood, collage, glue, glitter, seeds, cotton, laquer, etc.)
Size: 16" x 22" x 3" (exterior frame measurments)
Other: Comes with wooden display frame; book is easily removed.
Price: $500
Labels: animals, art show stories, books, collage
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Denatured Book: Letters
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What else tells our story best, but the letters we write?
Unfortunately, with technology as it is, people are more prone to use email, text messaging or the telephone to communicate. I've always thought that was a real shame because so many of the letters of the past by both the famous and infamous are now part of our literary history. It's much less likely we'll be printing out and saving all of the emails and messages we now receive.
This book is less a book than a box, meant to hold letters. Because I don't receive a great quantity of mail, I created my own letters. These are letters to anyone, letters that might be something found in an attic or antique store and rediscovered anew by someone far removed from their source.
Materials: Mixed media (papers, acrylics, glue, string, ribbons, inks, wood, etc.)
Size: 16" x 22" x 3" (exterior frame measurements)
Other: Comes with wooden display frame; book is easily removed.
Price: $800
Labels: art show stories, books, collage
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Denatured Book: Journal
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Journals don't have to be plain old diaries. Art and collage can do the work just as well as writing can. And that's what this book is about: telling a story without too many words.
This book opens in three places, with each section featuring a variety of materials, techniques, writings and moveable parts. Each element is personal, having a symbolic meaning for events in my life. But, despite it being about me, there is much in it that can speak to another person just like any good journal can.
The frame is covered with excerpts from my regular written journals, and the background of the frame is covered with pieces from the interior of old books.
Materials: Mixed media (gesso, acrylics, ink, glue, wood, paper collage, etc.)
Size: 16" x 22" x 3" (exterior frame measurements)
Other: Comes with wooden display frame; book is easily removed.
Price: $700
Labels: art show stories, books, collage
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Denatured Book: Fly Away
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This book opens in the center to reveal the pop-out of a hand-cut dove. The paper dove has pearlescent painted lines on its body, swirling about to form an abstract take on feathers.
The cover and background of the book all have phrasing that advocate a wish to be made into a bird and fly away, fly far, far away. How many times have you ever wished to escape the place you are for something that seems much better?
The wing pattern on the wooden exterior frame glows slightly in the dark.
Materials: Mixed media (gesso, watercolor, ink, paper, etc.)
Size: 16" x 22" x 3" (exterior frame measurements)
Other: Comes with wooden display frame; book is easily removed.
Price: $500
Labels: animals, art show stories, books, collage
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