As I have stated, I must be ADD because working in a particular style with one particular media doesn't work for me so I am constantly trying new processes and learning something that somehow makes its way back into my more traditional watercolors and oil paintings. This was a piece that incorporated printmaking, stencils, handmade paper, gilding, and the use of collage elements. The collaged elements are actually my highly detailed paintings of flowers. I was starting to bridge into working more abstractly but figuring out if I could use some of my more traditional training in the overall composition.
whimsy final.jpg"Whimsy" is a mixed media piece that helped me bridge my interest in working realistically to moving more into abstract work that uses more formal elements and the principals of design to create a successful composition. I was pushing myself to work in a way that I knew intuitively was leading somewhere but not totally comfortable to me.