New Wave Hair-Do

This piece has just been posted in the Etsy shop. It's an original mixed media collage painting on canvas board. No prints have been made of this. This is the one and only.

Colorful , Whimsical , Art Work Now Posted

I have been getting more and more back into painting these days. I still use paper collage in all of my works, but it seems that lately , the use of paint has been the medium I use most frequently.  I like it. Paint is fluid and more apt to serendipity.
Here are a few of my newest pieces. you will also notice that my work has gotten more abstract as well.

The Spotted Potato

 

 

Show Pony

 

The above two pieces are reproduction prints.  I begun with The Spotted Potato piece which is a mixed media collage piece. The background is acrylic paint and pen and ink and the geometric designs are cut paper, pen and ink, and some stamping.

 

The Show Pony piece was created over top of The Spotted Potato piece by adding paper collage elements and adding a few additional pen and ink details.

 

 

I have also been using Photoshop a little bit more than I used to. I am not a huge fan of Photoshop collage works , there is always something "off" about them to me. I have found however that if I begin with my hand-painted backgrounds and then add my hand-made collage images and just layer the two in Photoshop as opposed to creating everything in Photoshop, I end up with something I like. The It's a Little Cloudy Today piece below is one I created in just this way.

 





It's a Little Cloudy Today

 

 

 

In addition to using paints more often, my work has also gotten a little larger. Here I have two 16x20" mixed media on cradled board pieces available. You can find these larger pieces as well as the above prints in my Etsy shop.

 

 

The Stable

 

 

The Littlest Village

 

 

On another note, I would like to add that I won't be doing the Chicago Renegade Holiday show this year.  Sorry to those of you who were planning on seeing me there. You can still find my work through Etsy though, and I add new work all the time.

 



Illustrated Cookbook

Just wanted to let everyone know that my illustrated cookbook, "Sweet Bunny" is now available on etsy.

All of the illustrations and recipes were done by me. The book contains 12 super delicious dessert recipes along with 12 corresponding, whimsical ,  bunny rabbit illustrations.

I have made and tested all of the recipes in this book myself . I also had plenty of eager volunteers in the tasting department. 
I am somewhat of a dessert snob and these recipes rock! They are also super easy to make. The cake recipe section gussies-up cake mixes to a whole new level.
My absolute favorite recipe in the book is called, "Heath, Sugar Daddy". It's a tasty cookie bar that combines Heath chips and almond filling. Soooo good!

Each recipe is accompanied by a bunny rabbit and food themed illustration. This book is part cookbook, part artist book, part comic relief and all fun.