Sailing

As the snow falls here in the midwest, I had fun working on this piece from a photo I took last summer in Grand Haven,  Michigan. I like the vivid colors and the mood it sets.

2 more for my Michigan show

Grand Haven, MI has an iconic lighthouse and pier, so I made this 16"x16" collage for my August-September show in that town. I made the sky more active by weaving in some vertical strips of paper. The squirrel is 8"x8" and the area around the tree hole is mounded up... and includes some text.

New year, new work

I'm preparing more work for my Woods-Water-Words show to be in Grand Haven, MI, this fall.

The swan piece is 12"x12" and has a quote floating in the water in front of the bird: "I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea."

The squirrel piece is 8"x8" and I've layered up more than a dozen layers of paper around the tree hole to give the piece more depth. In addition to cutting 3 altered versions of the photo into strips, I've cut up some old newspaper text and interspersed it in the tree bark areas.

The lighthouse stands in the harbor at Grand Haven. I've placed a quote in the sky in this 12"x9" piece that says: "Once the lighthouse is seen, the rest of the sea is ignored."

I used the phone app Prisma to alter the photos in each of these art pieces before printing copies out and cutting into quarter inch strips.

Successful Show

It was great fun to be the featured artist at C2C Gallery in Grand Haven, Michigan. The opening was Friday, July 7th and I thoroughly enjoyed talking with tourists and locals about my art process. The gallery sold 4 of the 20 pieces on display in 24 hours! To date, they've sold 7 works, and the show will be up through the end of August.

More shore scenes

Working on some fun beach images for my show in Grand Haven, Michigan, July-August 2017.
I've also opened an Etsy shop LoriReedArt.

More shore images

I've been working on more pieces for my summer 2017 show in Grand Haven, MI. I've overlaid navigational charts of Lake Michigan on the sail and depth charts of the lake can be glimpsed in some of the water strips. It is 11"H x 14"W. With the 8"x8" gull collage, I've added vertical strips and painted and sanded a frame around the bird. I think I'll do some more experimenting with painting frames around imagery.

By the shore

I'm going to be the featured artists in July-August 2017 at C2C Gallery in Grand Haven, Michigan. I've started working with some imagery for that show. The lighthouse is on the shore of Grand Haven and I've made the collage at 8" x 8". The gull is a 6" x 6" collage. I used some natural sand texture gel on each -- in the water of the lighthouse collage and in the surf behind the gull.