Winter of Art

Who knew winter could be a busy time for art?
- I have two pieces in a "Snow Show" downtown Galesburg at The Beanhive.
- I'm in a group show with two other women at the Quad City International Airport Gallery Jan-Feb (photos to come).
- I will be in a show of 8 local women artists at our community college (Jan-March).

Below are the six 8"x8" pieces I made for that "Women's Work" show. I did a "mash up" of leftover strips from landscape collages and engravings from 1890's issues of "The Graphic" - a London weekly magazine. I used women's names from my family for the title and had fun with long titles, too.

From the top, the titles are:
"Marie is unaware that Edgar has been forked by Beechums"
"Ursula has had it with this little game" (not a family name)
"Elizabeth is tempted to discourage Nigel's little adventure"
"Alma just can't get enough Salt Regal"
"Irene has never been one to be cautious"
"Mildred's children behave so much better after they've had their cocoa"

Art Wall

Our friend in Montana had three pieces of my art on her dining room wall, but realized it wasn't "holding the wall" and asked if a 24" x 24" collage of mine was still available. We arranged for her to pick it up when in Illinois this October... and then I emailed her several panoramas I'd taken while visiting her in Montana this summer. She asked if I could make a 70" wide panorama to hang above the other four pieces of art! It certainly was the largest piece I've ever made, so I was very happy that she was able to drive both pieces home with her. She sent a photo today of the end of her dining room; my  5 pieces hang on the wall and my husband's metal mountains and Italian alabaster sculpture grace the cabinet below. Love it!

Commission

I delivered these six pieces to Campbell Steele Gallery in Marion, Iowa, on October 18th for the Kirkland Community College. You gotta love a growing campus that devotes 1% of construction monies toward the purchase of art!

Collage class - weeks 3 and 4

In Week 3 of my collage class, we found imagery and printed it on tracing paper. This week's assignment was to make layered collages using the tracing paper imagery as the 2nd of several layers. These are all 4" x 5".

New gallery

I left some notecards with my collage imagery printed on them at The Danforth Gallery in Livingston, Montana, in July. They've sold a couple of the cards, and I finally had some time to make a couple of small collages to send out for their gift shop. These are both 8"x 8" and are Montana scenes.

2nd assignment for the collage class

We were to cut images from magazines, coat them with gloss medium, then assemble and iron the works to fuse the medium. Here were my submissions.

5 minutes

I just started an online class with Randel Plowman (author of "Masters: Collage" and "The Collage Workbook"). The first assignment was to make a number of 3" x 5" sheets of heavy watercolor paper, gather imagery, set a timer, and make several collages - each in 5 minutes or less. What a fun assignment!