Art Spirals

At the Carlsbad Area Art Association Gallery (on Canyon Street, the downtown), I also fell in love with the watermedia/collage work of Helen Gwinn Just phenomenal work. Here's a pic of the collection of her notecards I purchased, I believe it represents older work, along with the postcard, bottom left, that shows an example of her new "Cliff" series.

And in her display was a lovely book that I have to find called: The Art of Layering: Making Connections. Her work is in there, as well as other work of other phenomenal collage artists.

This first one is a watercolor collage. I followed an exercise from a watercolor for kids video that my girls and I watched, and it was fun. Drop colors down in blobs. let dry. Find the flowers within it and use a marker/black crayon to define them. I added another little group of flowers behind it (on the top), glued it to a nice cardstock and then painted the cardstock background.

From Watercolor 2007

Watercolor It's in the mail now to my mom.

From Watercolor 2007

I got these neat card sets from Oriental Trading Company that have a square window frame, you insert a picture, glue it in and then I embellished it with wc strips. Fun to do. bright and cheery.

Yesterday was a quiet reflective day, my dad is doing worse physically, and I was quite somber. Thoughts of mortality and grief ran around my head, making it hard to focus. This morningm when I looked at this piece I worked on yesterday, for the Three Garbos round robin, I can see my mood reflected in the work. So here it is, for Wendy, in response to her spread that featured a sunflower and a black/white image of vangogh.



There are lots of layers, which is usual for me, and it started out to be a more joyful piece, but I kind of like it as it is. The image transfer of my picture was done by taking a color pic and making it a lithograph type piece, can't remember what imaging software I used, and then coated with omnigel.