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.

Watch the slide show below and you can mouse over for a caption of the slide.

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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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Fort Worth Billy ~ Goat Collage ~ Mixed Media Painted Paper Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

Fort Worth Billy  SOLD
8 x 8 " on canvas board

A friend Margie Whittington, one of the CBC members sent me this Fort Worth Fat Stock Show Goat photo and I made a hand painted paper collage painting for the FWCAC 9 x 12 show and entries are due November 15. The painting must fit inside a 9 x 12 envelope. I also used some found papers, vintage stamps and my signature Texas map in the background.

Here is a photo at the Upstairs Gallery studio for my "Love Your Life" art journal class. On Saturday we had 10 students and some visitors to drop by. Lots of door prizes that I mentioned in my last blog post but thanks again to Creative Catalyst for the wonderful DVD's and to Strathmore for the Visual Journals. I you haven't signed up for their FREE visual journal classes starting in January, please click HERE.
Looks life fun doesn't it? I see Scherry's pear she had planned to have for lunch but decided to draw and paint it before she ate it. Yesterday we painted things we loved and were near each day, today we painted things we might encounter on travel, people, faces, architecture and we made a few stamps. No more art journal classes scheduled until in May at Dena's ranch. What exciting days to spend with new friends who enjoy making journal entries.

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"Mr. Rooster" ~ Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage ~ Rooster Collage Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

Mr. Rooster SOLD
Hand Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage
12" x 12" on gallery wrapped canvas

This painting is on its way to the 2010 6th Annual 12BUY12 Juried Art Show at the Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios, Austin, Texas. "Good Coffee" and "Mr. Rooster" were accepted into the show juried by Carl McQueary who curates exhibits at the Austin Museum of Art and Laguna Gloria. You can view last year's opening party on their web site at www.AustinArtSpace.com or you are invited to attend the Opening Reception Saturday, November 20, 2010 (5-9 PM) at 7739 Northcross Drive, Suite Q, Austin, TX 78757. The show dates are November 16-December 18.

My friend, collage artist, Suzy Pal, will also be in the show with her collage, Lone Star.
We both like to use Texas maps for backgrounds and she uses more found papers in her collage work.

There are many different styles in collage work but so many artists like to use postage stamps in their art - just Google postage stamps in collage and you will find thousands of links to examples. Postal stamps are one of the most distributed works of art in the world. Check out this artist Yao Shaown that has a figurative piece entirely made of stamps.

I've had so many comments on my blog about wanting to try collage or wishing they could and I will be giving a workshop sometime in 2011 about the process and more details to follow. Out in West Texas Suzy has already gotten a workshop planned. Each artist's work will be original when they paint their own papers and use their own images to work from. Until the workshops, I encourage you to try this method of painting and what is so great you don't have to be an "artist" to try it. It's been around since the first little lady glued a butterfly wing to a mask. There is a lot of room out here in the collage world for each artists' interpretation. Start saving interesting looking papers.

I have another painted paper mixed media collage of a rooster that I posted HERE.

A big thanks for door prizes sent by the following two companies to be given away in my art journaling workshop this weekend. I can't thank you enough and I'm sure my students will feel the same way.

Jeanette Gile, Marketing Manager from Strathmore Visual Journal was so kind to share a few of the new Visual Journals (10 of the 3.5 x 5 in. drawing and 2 5.5 x 8 of the mixed media journals. Also check out their free online journal class starting in January, 2011. Click HERE.

Susan Mackey from Creative Catalyst Productions sent 5 art DVD's to give away. I'm a big supporter of this site and have ordered many DVD's from them. Check them out at http://ccpvideos.com.

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"Now is the Time" ~ Mixed Media Textured Contemporary Abstract by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Now is the Time"
10 x 10 in. acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. That is a sentence I've typed many times during typing class warm-ups in high school. Another variation is "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." It's something I've never forgotten and type it when trying out computer keyboards. It might be better to use a sentence with all the letters of the alphabet, such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Which sentence is preferred, I'm glad I took Mrs. Box's typing in high school before hints of blogging posts and emails. I never quite grasped shorthand.

I'm taking an online class called Texture Town and this was a class assignment to apply gel and write in it. I didn't try to write carefully or very legibly and most have been organic shapes in my projects but these figures kept appearing. It thought it a fitting post for today.

Mixed Media Textured Abstract

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