"my pet wasp". mixed media on handmade paper.
"flight of the hoverbees". mixed media on handmade paper.
Through the month of June I participated in a wonderful exchange between artist friends, both Nationally and Internationally, from Twitter. 33 artists in all, we sent each other original postcards of our art. I have since found myself developing new ideas using this medium that I am expanding on further in my current artwork.
I began with making handmade paper for the project. I had wanted to do this for awhile, and this project seemed the perfect way to experiment. How the paper turned out determine how I wanted to present my collages. I decided on using b&w photographic images from an old photography encyclopedia, mixed with original drawings drawn on tracing paper and collaged on the card as well. I sometimes drew on the actual card in ink, and used ink and gouache to enhance the tracing-paper drawings.
Each postcard is approx 3 1/2"x5 1'2" in size, and made from pencil, ink, gouache & mixed media on handmade paper. My theme generally involves humans interacting with an environment based entirely on insects, rodents and birds that match the scale of humans. In some, humans actually become part of the environment in the form of plants, in others they are able to interact peacefully, and in others they work to have some form of control over the insects, rodents and birds.
"hide & seek". mixed media on handmade paper.
"food for thought". mixed media on handmade paper.
"flight of the ladybugs". mixed media on handmade paper.
"evolution". mixed media on handmade paper.
"but why? asked the boy...". mixed media on handmade paper.
"a silver bird nests here". mixed media on handmade paper.
"and they talked of many things...". mixed media on handmade paper.
"a bronze bird guards my heart". mixed media on handmade paper.
"they both craved her attention". mixed media on handmade paper.
"and so she finally conquered her fears". mixed media on handmade paper.
"sea urchin". mixed media on handmade paper.
"remote control spider". mixed media on handmade paper.
"playmates". mixed media on handmade paper.
"nesting". mixed media on handmade paper.
"my new best friend". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the burden". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the bather". mixed media on handmade paper.
"tending her garden". mixed media on handmade paper.
"something old, something new". mixed media on handmade paper.
"she decided to go stag". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the sunflower". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the storm". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the reckoning #2". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the reckoning". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the moonflower". mixed media on handmade paper.
"wonderment #2". mixed media on handmade paper.
"waltz of the beetles". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the wonderment of it all". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the tightrope walker". mixed media on handmade paper.
"the teaparty". mixed media on handmade paper.
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