Commission for the holidays

This was commissioned as a Christmas gift for a recently married couple. In addition to the strips of imagery, you can see in the detail shot that I added more flowers to the meadow with tissue paper and a grassy handmade paper gives texture to the field.

Anniversary Commission

I took a photo of my aunt and uncle's farm and made this collage for them at the request of their daughter. She gave it to them for their 60th wedding anniversary in October. It is 12"H x 24"W.

Sharing - part two

This 9"H x 12"W collage uses a photo from a friend who has a business growing succulents. I liked the angles and colors in her photo and am pleased with how my strips of imagery add another component to the composition. I've entitled it "Diviner." A diviner uses a stick or divining rod to find water; I think it is clever that this little shallow-rooted plant found a home in a watering can.

Sharing

I recently met a young woman who has a business selling little succulent plants. She has some wonderful photos on her business site, and graciously shared two high resolution photos with me. This 14"H x 11"W collage is made from one of those photos.
See the original and her other photos at: http://www.shallowroots.pl

In and Out

I made another collage of an interior scene this past week. My friend Linda had asked me to photograph the flowers at a party as she'd been told one of her ceramic vases was being used. I decided to take several photos as I liked the active tablecloth and the wall hanging in the background. I think it makes a nice intimate piece.
A young man I met recently posted a photograph on Facebook of a storm coming toward the family farm. I asked his permission to make a piece of art of the scene; the contrast of light and dark/ blue and gold was just too inviting!
The still life is 10x10 and the storm scene is 8x8, on cradled panel.

Revisiting

I decided to revisit some traditional collage techniques and made these two 5x5 collages on 2"-thick cradled panels. I used old ledger paper in the background, overlaid that with images on tracing paper and added pencil circles, stamped numbers and acrylic paint.

Still Life

I was struck by the lighting on a bouquet of tulips one late afternoon, so I took several photos from different angles. I settled on this shot,  cropped the image to a 12"x12" and got to work with experimenting with filters. I like how the table runner (made for me by Penny Schine Gold) makes such a beautiful pattern in the piece. I also enjoy that the bowl was a birthday gift from my friend Linda Sickmon, my late husband's sculpture is on the table in the background as well as a painting on the wall by Carol Steinberg. I've normally done landscapes with this collage technique and think I'll be doing more interiors in the future. Your thoughts??