About Mary
Mary Rayme is a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate living in Parkville, Maryland. As an artist and librarian, she is inspired by the printed word, nature, paper, color, light, and shape. As a paper hoarder, her primary medium is collage.
Button Portraits
The button portraits grew out of my obsession with old buttons. I love how unique and interesting the shapes and colors are-- like little gems of industrial design. I started by cutting out pieces of patterned collage paper, gesso-ing a center spotlight, and then trying to recreate each button as a hovering object in that space using pencil and colored pencils.
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Red Sun Button
Paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Wooden Flower Button
Paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Yellow Flower Button
Paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Green Saucer Button
Paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Orange Flower Button
Collaged paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Red Spiral Button
Collaged paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Blue Diamond Button
Collaged paper, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Two-Tone Green Button
Collaged book pages, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Black and White Button
Collaged book pages, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
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Nude Button
Book page, gesso, pencil, colored pencil
Collage, Gesso, Colored Pencils
These collages evolved out of my love of stripes and artist Alma Thomas. I wanted to emulate her staccato brushstrokes and use them to create playful patterns. Some of the other artworks are birds-eye photographs that I have added gesso to and drawn on top with colored pencils.
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Alma Thomas
Collaged book pages, gesso
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Green Elephant
Collaged book pages, gesso
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Red Stripe Landscape
Collaged book pages, gesso
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Michelangelo Terracotta
Collaged book pages, gessol
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Rainbow Seuss
Collaged book pages, gesso
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Christo Glow
Collaged book pages, gesso, colored pencil
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Meander Rainbow
Collaged book pages, gesso, colored pencil
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Rainbow River
Collaged book pages, gesso, colored pencil
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Rainbow Rug
Collaged book pages, gesso
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Teal Palace
Collaged book pages, gesso
Drawing over Collaged Comic Books and Books
As a way of paying homage to my favorite comic books, I started cutting up one-inch squares, re-arranging them, and drawing on top of them. I also used colorful illustrations from old books in the same way.
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Green Richie Rich Starburst
Comic books, colored pencil
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Donald Duck Flower
Comic books, colored pencils
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Hot Stuff Flower
Comic Books, colored pencils
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Richie Rich Starburst
Comic books, colored pencil
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Archie Flower
Comic books, colored pencil
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Richie Rich Starburst
Comic books, colored pencil
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Tiny Tim
Collaged book pages, ink
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Purple X
Collaged book pages, pen
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Eye Scape
Collaged book pages, ink
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Big Buck Flower
Drawing on top of old book page.
Journal Entry Collages
Many times I create collages as a daily journal entry. I often return to collaging and drawing or painting on top of aerial photographs or images from art history.
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Rising Up
Collaged old books, gesso
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Ripple Car Park
Collaged paper and old books
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Waving Hello
Collaged paper, old book pages, gesso
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Watercolor Moon
Old book pages, watercolor
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XOX Diamond
Collaged paper, ink, gesso, colored pencils
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Undulating Shapes
Collaged book pages
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River Landscape Dots
Collaged book pages, gesso, ink, colored pencils
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River Flags
Paper, gesso
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Color and Symmetry
Paper and old book collage
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Angel Tea Cups
Collaged old books
Random Journal Entry Collages
These are random collages from journal entries.
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Map Sun
Paper, ink
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Free
Collaged paper
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Abstract Portrait
Collaged paper
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Jesus' Shoes
Paper collage
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Book pages, gesso, ink, colored pencil
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Double Spiral
Collage
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Lost River Spiral
Collaged book pages
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Cream Spiral
Collaged book pages.
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Singer Aff
Collaged paper.
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Black, White, and Red
Collaged book pages.