Torn Paper Collage Portrait Painting ~ Texas Contemporary Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Charles"
Torn Paper Collage Portrait Painting
18 x 18 in. on canvas

This is my second collage portrait since taking the Derek Gores workshop in Florida December 11 and 12. To see the first collage portrait go to my blog post HERE. This is a Christmas gift for a friend and I included some personal touches in the painting, sports, A&M, crossword puzzles, his daughter's name, etc. I'm enjoying this process so much I'm now asking friends to save me their old magazines!

I found this collage artist in the January issue, 2011 of Southwest Art Magazine and if you like torn paper collage you will enjoy looking at his site. Click HERE for Richard Curtner's Art.

Wishing all my blogger friends and readers a very Merry Christmas from Texas.

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Derek Gores Collage Portrait Workshop ~ Florida by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

"Dance Me"
18" Collage Portrait

I'll never look at a magazine page the same way again since returning LATE this morning from the Derek Gores Collage Portrait Workshop, December 11-12, 2010 at the Brevard Art Museum, Renee Foosaner Education Center, Melbourne, FL. The workshop was over at 4:00 PM Sunday and plans were to return the rental car, catch the 6:28p to Atlanta but the plans did not take into account for Atlanta's bad weather and Delta slowing down. Instead of a DFW 11:23p arrival time it was more like leave Atlanta at 1:00 am and not getting into my bed until 3:00 am but it was certainly worth the waiting time to meet 22 new artist friends and study with this famous collage artist. Did I get anything productive done in all these waiting times and hours? No - just purchased more magazines to tear up and to try to quiet my buzzing head filled with torn paper collage images.
The Students:
We had 22 students, 21 ladies and one male, and plus one male observer part time. It probably is a draw for distance traveled between me and the lady from Rhode Island but I bet I win on longest time to get back home. I've never been in this area of FL and I met people from Melbourne, Kissimmee, Titusville, Cocoa Beach - names vaguely familiar but now you can put a face to the names and definitely add some Facebook friends.
The class description:
"In this collage portraiture workshop Derek will teach you to use torn paper to capture a portrait in a fresh new way! You will make one finished portrait of any person you choose. Or if you're inspired to make a collage of something other than a person, that is fine too! Derek will demonstrate, and guide you through the process of drawing, selecting your colors, and building up your collage layer by layer. "
I chose to keep some friends and do my own portrait. I took the photo in my kitchen using the gorilla pod on the kitchen table with a timed feature on the camera.
The Class:
Saturday was spent getting our images down on canvas and discussing composition and scale and positioning that first piece of collage paper. (I brought my piece drawn off so it gave me some walking around and observing time.) We were urged to use the biggest pieces first to glue down and get it covered in 30 minutes - NOT me or anyone else. Derek then warned us not to wait to get those eyes in until 3:30 Sunday. That's one reason my background is nice and layered is putting off working with the features. He had one rule for us "Don't use hair for HAIR." On my portrait if you click on the image to enlarge you can see some diamond jewelry pieces I've used for hair. (I brought some fur images just in case.) I had ripped out some magazine pages and divided them into colors in jumbo plastic bags with appropriate labels, red, black, text, personal items, white, etc. but I'm not for sure I'd need to do that next time or just maybe for the dominant color.
Derek was available to the class, answered our questions and spent a lot of time walking between the tables consulting with each student. In the slide show I didn't get a photo from each artist I'm sorry to say and I don't have the names of the work with the artist.
Derek spoke of having a history of time in art and my piece does have a history, the too white stage, then my neighbor Karen had gotten a beautiful glow with sewing pattern pieces, so I did that, didn't like the effect and added more white pieces while remembering what my collage teacher, Gerald Brommer said.. "You can keep adding collage until you can't pick it up."
Derek described his way of working as random and couldn't give us a definite sequence to follow and advised us to work large, loose and keep adding layers until you get it right and let the painting take you where it wants to go, ending up with a collage painting that is more than you could have imagined on your own.
I remembered a Pablo Picasso quote: "I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

Derek Gores Collage Workshop June, 2011 in Texas
If you would like to attend a Derek Gores collage workshop in 2011 check with Dena at the Wenmohs Ranch. I'll see you there as I'm already signed up and thanks Derek for my first portrait collage workshop in FL. He is scheduled for another workshop in FL in February if you can't wait until June. Thanks Florida friends for your hospitality and help with restaurants and hints and now Dena invites you to Texas to take with Derek in June.


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Oil Pastel Cactus Painting ~ Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

"Texas Cactus"
8 x 10 in. on Ampersand Gessobord, 2" cradle with wood stain

CACTUS OIL PASTEL PAINTING

I have the boards and the oil pastels and now I need some time to explore more paintings in this very different medium. Some of the Canvas by Canvas girls were visiting some of the local art shows recently when we found Jennifer Cavan from New Mexico and she was so gracious in sharing her information that we have all tried our own experiments. Here is Jennifer's website where you will probably be inspired to try your hand at oil pastels also. If you do, please share your efforts with us as we'd love to see how you handle the medium. I don't know very many artists working in oil pastels and if you do send me a name and I'll add them to a special blog post.
Here are a few more sites if you'd like to see more oil pastels:
SITE: Paintings by Patricia
Ann Tucker
Ruth Hunter
George Shipperley
Jane Aukshunas
Connie Chadwell

I haven't stopped the collage work but have made some new papers in acrylic iridescent and interference paints.




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"Ancient City Myths" ` Texture Town ~ De Leon Girls ~ Cocktails with the Buffaloes by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Ancient City Myths"

10 x 10 in. Mixed Media Abstract

on canvas with cardboard, rice paper, and stencil work

I'm finishing up the pieces for homework in the online Texture Town class I've been taking and I may have one other to post after this. I don't ever use a piece of corrugated paper without thinking of a Carrie Burns Brown workshop in Austin when we removed all the light bulb paper coverings for our collage after we found the extra bulb closet. I can still see Carrie in the kitchen explaining how to make use of coffee filters and coffee in your collage. Now you really have to look for some good cardboard rib sizes and shapes. In this one I used pieces from a garage box, one of the light bulb covers and a Starbucks cup cover.

"De Leon Girls"

Connie, Selah, Pat, Nancy, Andy
See Connie on the end - She and Andy are sisters but no one wanted to stand by Connie because she's the youngest!! I'm the oldest and the others fall in between and in the same class. Charles Morgan was there but we wouldn't let him in the photo since this was a girl shot.

So you don't think we look like girls anymore? Everyone within earshot when I asked for the "De Leon girls" photo knew exactly what I meant. We all grew up in a small Texas town, De Leon, approximately 2200 population and had a reunion yesterday celebrating Andy's new working Kickapoo Creek Jewelry Design Studio.
The clever invitation read "Cocktails with the Buffaloes" and we spent an enjoyable fall afternoon with beverages and a buffet touring her new studio overlooking the lake and enjoying the wandering buffalo. Thanks Larry and Andy for the tour and the chance to share in your life in Brownsboro.

Andy is getting ready for a show in a Oklahoma City Gallery, JRB Art Gallery, December 4 and 5th. She is preparing 40 pieces for the show and even after touring and giving Christmas hints by the De Leon girls I think all the pieces we saw will go to the gallery. Andy has a fashion flair, a green Jag, a new studio, and a herd of buffalo for inspiration and will share her jewelry expertise in a Mexico workshop in Puerto Vallarta at the Hacienda Mosaico with Worldly Wires March 14-19, 2011. I don't know anything about jewelry except I love to wear it but I could see me taking this one and being an "assistant" then on to the Flying Colors in San Migel with Robert Burridge and follow up with a review in a Carrie Burns Brown workshop. I've been to PV and Acapulco with Johanna before and it's a great experience.

Andy and I have a long history. We both lived "out on the Comanche highway" in De Leon. Our mothers had beautiful gray hair, belonged to the same Baptist Church Sunday School Class and would sometimes be mistaken for the other when visiting nearby towns, such as Dublin, Comanche or Brownwood. Our Daddies were armadillo chasing, lawn and garden obsessed community leaders. (I have a great Boss Johnson and Otis Baber armadillo story that my father, Boss, played on Otis but I need to paint an armadillo to illustrate it.) Andy and I have followed each others lives because of this connection, our college years in Denton, and our love of art. Congratulations on the new studio and the JRB Art Gallery show, Andy.

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"City History" ~ a Mixed Media Abstract Contemporary Painting by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"City History"
8 x 10"

If you've been following my posts for a few weeks you know I've been taking an online Texture Town class given by Julie Prichard and Chris Cozen from their teaching collaboration site, click HERE. I've stretched their instructions a little in this one. All the pieces have been done with a similar palette of a grey and brown natural colors and I added a little copper metallic in this one along with rice paper and stencils and some impressions. The class has expanded my horizons with texture application and the next post will show a painting with some cardboard pieces used.

The December issue of Southwest Art arrived yesterday and you can see my horse collage, "Rocinante" on the upper left of page 24. The ad was placed through the Daily Painters Abstract blog.

"Rocinante"
16 x 20
Painted Paper Mixed Media Horse Collage Painting

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Blue Ribbons and Honorable Mentions ~ Painted Paper Collage ~ Mixed Media Abstracts by Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

"Minerals and Metals"
12 x 16

MIXED MEDIA ABSTRACT

"Uncle Bob's Goat"
11 x 14
SOLD

GOAT COLLAGE

Both of these pieces, "Uncle Bob's Goat" and "Minerals and Metals" won an Honorable Mention in the Dallas TX Expressions 2010 show National League of American Pen Women Show.
Click on the above link for place and show dates and times.
Here is my original blog post about the show.

Saturday was the reception for the PCPC arts festival and while CBC didn't get a blue ribbon for "On Earth, Peace" I will mention some links for work that did. And it was a beautiful day for "the peeps" to meet, greet and celebrate.

"Keep Going" was a Blue Ribbon winner from Deborah Jencsik and one of my favs. I wrote her a fan letter and we have emailed back and forth this week and one of her statements that meant a lot to me was "We artists are always saturating ourselves with the work of others, hoping to create a fresh new visual language for ourselves." I was interested in the heavy texture she achieved with the oil since I've been taking Texture Town online. Hey, Julie and Chris I know I'm terribly behind in my homework!!

Two more of my favorite pieces by John Cook and Cynthia Stone were mentioned in this article:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-reliart_14met.ART.Central.Edition1.4b97d35.html

After the reception, Maryann, Connie and I made it towards McKinney to take the McKinney Art Studio Tour. We had a full day of saturating ourselves with the work of others and how inspiring it all was and wishing we had studios in old houses side by side. We finished our time in McKinney with a delightful dinner at Cafe Malaga.

I learned some of my texture techniques used in "Minerals and Metals" from Carol Nelson when I took her Colorado workshop in March. She is working on some beautiful poppies here using some text background. Click HERE to read her post. In her May 2007 blog post she describes in wonderful detail on some of the ways she adds the poppy image. Click HERE to read that informative post. For a real treat just search "Poppy" at the top of her blog. Carol will be in Texas for a 2011 Granbury workshop and yes, I'm signed up for it. Oh, and after looking at all of those poppy paintings I'm thinking a poppy would make a great collage.

In the last post I mentioned several good collage sites and here is one I overlooked. Check out Eileen Downes.

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"Eat You Up, Cupcake" ~ Cupcake Collage ~ Hand Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage by Contemporary Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

"Eat You Up, Cupcake"
8 x 8 in. on canvas panel
SOLD

The envelope please - for the last entry, a cupcake collage, for the Fort Worth Community Arts Center Show, FWCAC 9 x 12 annual show. The deadline is November 15 so start looking for those 9 x 12 envelopes and entries - on paper and it has to fit inside a 9 x 12 envelope to mail.

I'm still unpacking from the 3 day art journal workshop "Love Your Life" I taught at The Upstairs Gallery studio this weekend and some of the students expressed some interest in a two day collage workshop. I think a cupcake would be a great first project and we could paint papers and attach maps on day one - guess that would be optional on a map background and collage a cupcake on the second day and they would have time to begin a personal painting. The attaching a Texas map would be up to them. I just like the extra graphic lines and text running through the background. Each collage artist will develop their own personal style quickly. The use of the artist's own painted and designed papers and personal images makes for an original work. Anyway if you think this is something you might be interested in let me know by email or on Facebook and I'll add your name to the list..

For more information about torn paper read this EHow article by Terri Welch on how to create a torn paper collage and mosaic art. She discusses her directional tearing technique. She said she was happy to share so click HERE.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2179561_paper-collage-mosaic-fine-art.html
Terri is has 2 blogs
http://tornpaperart.blogspot.com/
http://tornpaperartist.blogspot.com/
I thought about that article yesterday when I delivered 3 collage paintings, the longhorn collage, goat collage, and donkey collage to the Visual Expressions Art Gallery for a show and exhibit. In the back of their art center some creative artists are adding Texas themed mosaic designs around the columns. How very stunning. If you taken a class there at the Creative Arts School you are invited to show. Several years ago I took a Myrna Wacknov workshop there. The crow and red bird would make a great collage painting. The VE show hangs from November 12-19 and an opening reception Friday November 12 7-9:00 pm. Click HERE for the location 1425 N. Hwy 67, Cedar Hill, TX and more directions.

Visual Expressions Gallery and Art School

You know you have arrived when you see Mr. Buffalo.

Try a collage. Try a cupcake collage. Here is a post about a mini cupcake painting I did in 2007 for a Canvas by Canvas cupcake show. Or try some collage animals or footwear or people.

Or just enjoy visiting other collage artists websites such as Janet Black, a California artist at http://www.janetblackart.com/
I think you will want to try putting your spin on a butterfly or a bird at least after looking at her Gallery 2. Here is a link and story about one of her portraits where she is "painting with paper".

Would you like some footwear inspiration? Check out Robin Birrell's boots HERE:
Robin also refers to her work as "paper painting" HERE and what a composition..wow.. as she uses magazine paper without the print.

Want some print with your figures, check out Derek Gores HERE.

For more cupcake collages you would enjoy looking at Elizabeth Nelson's work HERE and Wonder Wanda HERE.

I also have to mention my friend Suzy Pal out in West Texas and she is using magazine pages in her collage work and has a workshop in the planning stages.

I'm sending 4 other pieces of collage paintings to the 9 x 12 show:

Feed the Birds, A BIRD COLLAGE

Ready to Crow, A ROOSTER COLLAGE

Fort Worth Billy, A GOAT COLLAGE

Eat You Up, Cupcake, A CUPCAKE COLLAGE

and a mixed media textured piece

Peace Southwest

Send me an email if you are interested in taking a collage workshop in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2011. Thanks all.

If you need a cupcake to eat today, now...go to Amy's Cakery at the Shoppes at Brownstone Village in Arlington. Cupcakes. cocktails. coupons. celebrate. Celebrate 6 years of boutique shopping at The Shoppes at Brownstone Village November 11th from 6-9 pm. There are 2 pages of coupons in today's Fort Worth Star Telegram, Arlington Metro section for this event. Most of the coupons expire Dec. 13. I don't see a coupon for a free cupcake so guess you'll have to buy and browse. (Update: on the Social Calendar menu bar on the Brownstone Village website you can print out coupons from a pdf file.)


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