I've made some 16"x20 versions of two of the 5"x7" commissions I created in late 2024, the heron and egret in Claude Monet paintings. I also worked with a composite image of an owl and van Gogh's "The Starry Night". I'm enjoying the additions of birds in the foreground of these familiar paintings -- and working with these old masterpieces and seeing them anew.
I was asked to make 8 pieces of art for gifts. I made 5"x7" collages using an impressionist painting (in the public domain) as the background with a bird or animal in the foreground.
McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Sept-Oct, 2024
I'm showing with my Art Sisters through the end of October at the McLean County Art Center in Bloomington, Illinois. The reception will be Sept 20th - I'm excited to see how they've arranged all of our art. After delivering my art for that show, I quickly made a new piece for the CIAO Show in Peoria - a group show of 49 area artists. I'm glad I made the new work as was awarded 2nd prize! "At the Corvid Convention" features a raven in the foreground of a Van Gogh painting "Wheat Field with Crows". After choosing 4 filtered versions of the composite image, I cut those into strips, assembled into a new scene and added copper and gold leaf.
I'll have 35 pieces of art on display the month of August at the Peoria Art Guild, downtown Peoria, Illinois.
I realized I've been remiss on posting art I've made this year. I guess I've been busy! Here are a few pieces I've made in 2024...
This is a 12"x12" artwork on wood panel. I started with two photos I'd taken at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. I super sized the butterfly and laid it on top of an image of a ceramic tile patio in the garden. I chose four filtered versions of the photo composite that I thought "played well together" and printed those out on my laser printer. I freehand cut the sheets into strips and built the artwork from those. I recently purchased a pack of copper leaf, so I put some of that across the arcing band of rust-colored tile to add a little glitz.
