"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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"Good Coffee" ~ Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Good Coffee"
12 x 12 in. Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage on gallery wrapped canvas

I worked on this piece at the CBC paint out at the lake house. I've also entered it into the Austin 12 x 12 juried show.
The deadline for entries was October 20. I've entered 3 pieces so we'll see if any get in.
On this collage piece I've used some images from a Starbucks sack, some hand painted papers using my handmade stamps, some collage images from old paintings and pages from a vintage magazine.
"Good Coffee" reminds me of the beginning of my day and heading to the kitchen, grinding the beans and waiting for that first cup in my favorite mug. I tell the CBC girls each time we rent the lake house "I'll bring the coffee" and I will get the pot prepared the night before so first one up always know to plug it in and then we can be found on the patio drinking that delicious first cup and discussing what paintings will be worked on first.
If you are interested in collage, a cup of coffee is a great image to experiment with as there are thousands of Google images to use or photograph your own favorite mug filled with your special blend. If you have the Google tool bar installed you can search blogs, the internet or for specific images for inspiration and then add your own style to the art work with your hand painted papers, stamping or with magazine pages such as the artist below.
I have a West Texas friend, Suzy Pal, that is working with collage but using magazine images so find your favorite way of working and join us in our collage journey. Congratulations to Suzy for winning an honorable mention in the Midland show for "Rodeo Clown".
I've added a link on my blog to Collage Making for those interested in any kind of collage. I haven't looked at all the blogs and websites yet but I know there are some goodies to be found.
I have recently joined another blog Mixed Media Artists International and we don't have many subscribers yet but I see the subscription box has been added and if you work in Mixed Media why don't you join us? Try some coffee collages using your choice of techniques and paper and post with us.

Some of you have read previous blog posts and know that I'm taking an online class at Texture Town and here is lesson 4 examples on 5 x 7" canvases of some of the colors we will be using. Now I'm ready to start working with some of the heavily textured pieces.


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"Leaves" ~ Contemporary Implied Texture ~ Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Leaves"
10 x 10" on Gallery wrapped canvas

In a previous blog post I mentioned taking an online class Texture Town and this lesson was about implied Texture. Now I've finished the color lesson and next on to the real deal...texture and more texture. Stay tuned.

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"Fluctuation" ~ Contemporary Textured Abstract ~ Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Fluctuation"
7 3/4" x 15" Contemporary Textured Mixed Media Abstract
MDF board, copper, metallic colors, Tyvek paper collage

I love to explore collage, mixed media and texture. While researching online this week, I found a YouTube video introducing an online class, "Texture Town" with Julie Prichard and Chris Cozen and signed up. The class has just started and if you'd like to join me the first two classes have been more introductory classes and we really haven't started applying the texture yet. The piece above, "Fluctuation", is one completed over the summer and has some copper and metallic paint in it. In this workshop, Julie and Cris will be using a limited nature palette.
Here are links to their websites and blogs:
Julie Prichard

Julie's Blog

Chris Cozen

Chris's Blog

So if you'd like to explore how to make your paint more interesting and using a limited a palette of nature colors, join us HERE.

Chris Cozen has written several books on mixed media and transferring images and altered surfaces. Search for her name at Amazon.

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