"Peace - Southwest" ~ Textured Acrylic Mixed Media Collage ~ CBC

"Peace - Southwest"
8 x 10 inches on Canvas Board
Textured Acrylic Mixed Media Collage with Foil and Painted Paper

This was a personal painting I finished this long weekend at the lake house with my CBC peeps. It will be entered into the FWCAC 9 x 12 works on paper show.
Some techniques: (for more info on highlighted topics, just click)
It was textured with two different compounds to build up the layers and thickness with a palette knife and added embossed foil with symbols and covered with a hardening agent, and sgraffito, stencil work and this can really become the ugly stage. Add some colorful glazes with liquid acrylics and metallics and a painting begins to emerge. At times, it will be too dark, too light, too bright, too metallic but there is a continuous push and pull trying to get it to what you first envisioned or maybe it will become completely something different.
If you'd like to try some of these techniques, get the Creative Catalyst DVD by Jacqueline Sullivan, Acrylics: Textures, Layers and Metallics. I have been working in a more traditional painted paper technique but Jacqueline's DVD shows the unlimited possibilities of collage. I watched it several times while working on the painting below as a prototype for the Canvas by Canvas group to use for ideas at our lake house retreat. It went through many, many ugly stages and uses many of the techniques listed above with the addition of some hand painted collage papers for the trees.

"Peace" by NS
16 x 20 inches on Canvas 3/4" deep

Here we are arriving at the lake house near Gun Barrel City Thursday morning, Canvas by Canvas, ready to tackle an original painting for our Park Cities Presbyterian Church entry. Margie Whittington has posted on the Canvas by Canvas blog the result of the painting by the members present. We had a beautiful rented house by the lake, great food (we take turns providing the meals) and our goal was to complete our entry. Each member present brought ideas, painting supplies and some prototype ideas of their own. Before the first planning session some decided to visit the Canton Trade Days for more art supplies, vintage books or just walk and look.

This was my first trip not driving but I really thought I would have to take my own car as the boxes and tubs were being piled up on the front porch. But Karen, besides be one of the best "lifters" is also one of the best packers, so I rode with her this trip. That is not all my supplies and it does include some of her things.
More paintings will be posted on this site this week with other links so check back. We stayed until Sunday afternoon and got a lot accomplished, both collaboratively and personal paintings.

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Acrylic Landscape Warm-up ~ Annual Spring Gallery Night

Acrylic Landscape #1


Acrylic Landscape #2


Acrylic Landscape #3


Acrylic Landscape #4


51/2" x 7 1/2" Acrylic on paper, no mat, no frame, no shipping charges

The two previous posts have discussed the Robert Burridge workshop at Dena's Ranch and how we "warmed up" with some painting exercises. Bob had completed a larger painting similar for Dena and he said we could use some of his Gold Holbein paint to experiment with. I loved his colors and tried some similar with some alcohol and paint splatters. I've never been a big fan of landscape painting or plein aire painting because painting trees and just perspective in general has been a bugaboo to me so I've signed up for the July 7-11 Burridge Plein Aire Experience in Cloudcroft.
The workshop will be done in watercolor out in the field and then with acrylics back in the studio so I will have much to learn. Bob is an encourager to artists and his teaching style is entertaining and informative. One morning at Dena's when we'd had to many coffees, Dr. Pepper's and Cokes and we laughing out of control and generally horsing around, instead of getting a little discouraged with us, Bob calmly said "I love your enthusiasm" and I'll never forget this kind of attitude as he makes taking risks easier.
Saturday night found 6 Canvas by Canvas artists Betty Taylor, Barbara Hackney, Maryann Stephens, Karen Foster, Cindy Yandell, and Nancy Standlee out on the Annual Spring Gallery Night. Next year we want our members, Connie Michael, Margie Whittington and Cindy Campbell to join us. We met in Arlington at the Upstairs Gallery where our friends, Maureen Brouillette and Joel Sampson, were having an opening of their mixed-media work, Double Entendre. In the slide show, you will see some of their work. I brought along my T.A. (travel assistant - Garmin Navigational device) and Cindy Y drove us to the Rebecca Low Sculptural Metal Gallery and Studio. I quickly decided maybe my art supplies didn't take up so much room after all after checking out her supplies out in back. Carotta, the door greeter, issued an alarm if you touched her "headlights" or rear bumper. Other artists are represented at this gallery.
Next was Galerie Kornye West where we viewed contemporary work and works from the 19th through the mid 20th century.
Artspace 111 highlighted more than 50 works of some of the most progressive artists in Fort Worth. There are several photos in the slide show taken here and they provided valet parking.
I always wish we'd started earlier so we could go to more galleries but we had the reception at The Fort Worth Community Arts Center and just had to take our photos by our work. FWCAC is in it's fifth year of serving the Fort Worth community as an exceptional venue of all of the arts. The CafeART will open soon to offer a delightful light fare menu, coffee and WiFi in a friendly environment.
Food always figures in anytime we get together and after a variety of great snacks at the galleries, we decided on the Blue Mesa on University Drive for some light fare of our own, their Painted Desert soup.
Thanks to the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County for providing and operating the FWCAC. Canvas by Canvas will be having a special exhibit there in the summer and you will be sure to be notified.

Mouse over for captions of the slide show.