Thank you for visiting my art blog! I am an artist in southern California, and this blog is about my journey into art. My art is mixed media original art, and very often my vehicle for sharing is a greeting card. I paint and ink and stamp and rip and shred and glue and emboss, but no designer paper is harmed in the making of my collages. It all starts with blank paper.

July 22, 2012

Number Two in a Series

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Watercolor paint is trying to wheedle its way into my good favor.  I keep denying it entry, but it is trying to convince me it has a place in my art (if not in my heart).  Maybe not in the traditional sense, with the obscure but beautiful renditions of a riverside town at sunset--but perhaps in an abstract backdrop way.  I do like its transparency.  And it does do lighter colors justice.  Maybe, just maybe, I'll keep an open mind.

I will call this number two in a series of four.  (Um, well, since I cut up my picture into four pieces.)  I'm loving the contrast of the dark ink against the lighter colors.  I'm also digging the piece of bark that my daughter and I heisted <cough> borrowed from a local botanical gardens.  It makes a lovely backdrop for my cards.  And a shout out to my mother for all the lovely gems she sends me.  The one on this card is a mother-of-pearl, I believe.  Beauty where there once was nothing: it all started with blank paper.

Author's note:  This one I knew would be difficult to part with, but it is easy for a favorite card to go to a favorite person, Aunt Penelope.

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