Mixed Media Artist

original art

IF ‘Pale’- Albino Girl

You have to admit, you don’t get much paler than this!albino-girl


ACEO The Pout

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Another ACEO available on etsy.


ACEO Deep In Thought

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A New ACEO mixed media painting of Imogen.  Available on Etsy.


ACEO Looking Forward

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This is a new ACEO  mixed media painting on paper.


ACEO The Sad Ballerina

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This is a 2.5″x3.5″ mixed media painting on rag paper and is available in my Etsy shop.


ACEO Joy 2

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This is a new ACEO I did recently.  I have been challenging myself trying to capture extreme expressions without having them look distorted or unatural.  It is hard.  I think I managed to do it.  I love the way children really feel the joy with their whole body.  Head back, mouth open.  Just pure pleasure in the moment.

This one is available in my etsy shop.

my-red-guitarAlso, this painting was included in a new treasury on etsy called It’s A Dog’s Life

This one is called ‘My Red Guitar’ and is available on Etsy


IF ‘contained’- The Secret Garden

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Red Pears

This new mixed media painting is 11.5″x15.5″ on 100% rag paper.

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Balanced

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A new painting,  ‘Balanced’, 18″x24″, mixed media on wood stretcher.

I found this amazing photo on http://clancysclassics.blogspot.com/, actually in her etsy shop.  Check out her beautiful work.  She graciously let me use this image for a print of the final painting.  Thanks Marianne!


IF ‘Resolve’ Pink Frosting

This year, I resolve to NOT eat Imogen’s cupcakes after she has licked the frosting off them.aceopink-frostings


Joy

I just finished this 11.5″x15.5″ mixed media painting.  Joy, just pure joy.

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Undecided

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Another painting from my new series “Too Small, Too Young”.

Undecided, 15.5 “x 20”, mixed media painting on wood stretcher.

This series is about being a child now, looking back and/or remembering being a child and also about being an adult/parent watching  your child grow up.  It is bitter sweet to say the least.

Sometimes I find myself looking at my children and feeling  unbearably sad.  I know that this sounds crazy  but it is because I am not really looking at them right now, instead I am thinking about how much smaller they were not so long ago or how soon they are going to be all grown and leaving me.  Awful I know, but it is the truth.  I think about how far away my own childhood seems now, how foggy my memories are.  How young my parents were.

In many ways, these are timeless paintings.  They live neither in or out doors but exist simultaneously in both.  If as though, our memories can be in some other plain all together, existing in our mind but also in this place that shifts back and forth, in and out of focus.  Often hard for us to grasp completely, save a snippet here, a smidgen there.

I guess in these works I am trying to capture  childhood, mine and my children’s and to somehow hold onto it for a little bit longer.  If I can’t manage it in real life, perhaps painting it will  help me remember to think less and be more.


IF ‘Clandestine’ – Now That I Have Your Attention

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The Clandestine Meeting

Now that I have your attention

The meeting will now begin

What do two white ravens need to discuss?

They would like it to be noted in the records

They are not albino

They simply have some type of mutant gene

They like that they are symbolic of peace

And they really like the gold sequins on your hat

That is all

The meeting can now be adjourned


Circus Sketches From My Sketchbook

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IF Voices

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‘Rape as a weapon of war.’

I was watching Mia Farrow speak about the horrible atrocities that are happening in the Congo right now and this really seems to fit with the topic this week. She promised these people to use her voice  so the world would hear their plight.    It is so horrible what is happening to these women and children.  Let’s all use our voice to get this story heard.

Yell it out!

For more information link here.


Circus Girl and Elephant

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This is a 11.5X15.5″ mixed media painting of circus girl being rocked to sleep by Harriet, the circus elephant.


Mui Mui, I love You You

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This is a 3.5″x5.5″ mixed media painting on paper.


IF “Rambuntcious”-The Sword Swallower

Everyone said that she was  rambunctious as a child.

Even so, no one expected her to  grow up  to be a sword swallower.

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This is a mixed media ACEO on paper.


Circus Girl And Strongman

circus-girl-and-strongmanThis is a 11.5″x15.5″ mixed media painting of Circus girl having her toes painted by the strongman.


Prada

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These are last year Prada … but I’d still wear them!

This is an original 3.5″x5.5″ mixed media painting. Available  for sale on etsy.


AHHHHH Ooooooow Choo

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This is an original 3.5″x5.5″ mixed media painting on paper.

Oh, Jimmy why do you do the things that you do? This suede boot by Jimmy Choo is a mere $1,500. That is $750 per boot. What I am offering you is this: own a Jimmy Choo boot for $20! How about that?

*** Actual boot is not included in sale****


ACEO Willows Beach

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At the end of September we went to Victoria.  September weather is usually pretty reliable and this was no exception.  We had  a few beach days with the girls. Scarlett is totally into the beach right now.  She would throw rocks in the water and scoop water into her sand bucket forever.

This little ACEO is of Scarlett sitting on one of my favorite beaches in Victoria; Willows.  In the summer you can get crinkle fries from the little tea house and eat them right on the beach.  On a rainy day, you can sit inside and have a cup of tea.  It is nothing fancy, it is charity run, but it is one of my most favorite things

SOLD


IF Similar

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The Orange Peelers, 1.5’x5′, mixed media on canvas, 2008

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A Favorite topic of mine.    The ‘Orange Peeler’ Factory.  This idea came about when I handed Scarlett a bowl of tiny little oranges and she spent 2o minutes peeling them.  In a two year old’s world this is a very long time.   Anyway, that was the inspiration and then I just let my imagination fly!


Just Too Small

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This is a 24″x24″ mixed media painting on wood.  The sides are painted tangerine.  I actually did this one a few weeks ago but only just got around to taking a photo of it.  If I can’t scan it in, ( just too large! HA!)  I get a little lazy.

This one came about when a woman I am doing a large commission for was talking about empty chairs in paintings or photographs and how they made the individual viewer feel.  It seems that for some people it made them feel sad and lonely and for other it was more welcoming.  I couldn’t get the empty chair out of my head so when I was painting this one I decided to incorporate it.  I made it a kind of ghost like child’s chair.  She seems to be just leaving it to go forward, onward, to something else.  Something more interesting.  Such is life.

How do you feel about an empty chair in a photo or painting?