"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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"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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