Category: Collage

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A Spring Tree for my friend

A friend messaged me on Facebook asking for a painting of one of my trees. It’s always a joy when someone I knew quite a long time ago reaches out and we can reconnect. I remembered her as an inspirational woman who loved God and her family well. She served and blessed others with her encouragement and humility and patient strength. I worked to create a piece that included teals and reds that she likes with a calm, serene feel. As spring unfolded around me, the tree also came to life on my canvas. The background is acrylic laid on...

Mixed Media Rooster Collage on board 8x8 2021 0

Mixed Media Collage Roosters for Spring!

Collage is one of my favorite mixed media techniques to use when making these fun spring roosters. Using fun spring colors and various materials make their strutting attitude pop and grab your interest. Creating these fun fancy spring roosters does take a lot of time and layers of materials, but they are well worth it and one of my best sellers at art sales and shows. Some of the materials used are hymn book pages, colored scrapbook acid-free paper scraps, or any other interesting torn paper and dried acrylic paint that I peal up off of a palette. This is...

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A Hope and a Prayer

For me, learning to pray, was not about singing the right notes, but about learning love the song God wrote for me more than the song I was writing on my own. It was about loving God more than I loved the idea of any of my prayers being answered at all.