"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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"Rocinante" ~ A Horse Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage by Texas Contemporary Fine Artist Nancy Standlee

"Rocinante"
16 x 20 in. Hand Painted Papers Mixed Media Collage
Ampersand cradled 2" deep panel

I belong to the group, Contemporary Fine Art International, and blog, Daily Painters Abstract Gallery, and some of us will place an ad in the December issue of the Southwest Art magazine. I have chosen the above collage, "Rocinante" to place in the ad. I may never be able to pronounce the title but I thought Rocinante would make a good title for this painted paper mixed media collage. To make it more confusing I'm using the Spanish spelling but using the English pronunciation. Rocinante was the name of Don Quixote's faithful friend and horse who accompanied him while he was tilting windmills in the story by Cervantes written in the 1600's. See which pronunciation you like better HERE. John Steinbeck, 1902, Salinas, CA., "The Grapes of Wrath" author, took a 10,000 mile journey in a 3/4 ton truck in the 60's and he named the truck, Rocinante. The book that came from that was "Travels with Charlie." Yes, I've ordered the book from Amazon.
Technique: I have been gluing a map for the background and I have added other elements this time from some vintage books and stamps, dress patterns and a tailoring book from my college days, an interesting face stamp. Some relevant words I've added are horse, Don Quixote, wild horse, Arizona, horseman, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, warriors, and drawing. Some of these words came from a 1902 vintage magazine and a dictionary. I learn something with each new collage and it takes many close up views of Google images to get the eyes correct.
I have entered him in a Dallas juried show today also. More to come on that.

"On Earth, Peace"

Saturday, Elizabeth (Betty) Taylor and I delivered our CBC painting to the PCPC art festival. Last weekend we took a painting holiday to finish this painting just in time for delivery. It is a juried show and the jurors, Cheryl and Ken Vogel, own the Valley House Gallery. More to come about the fate of this painting. It was a new concept and style for our collaborative group and you can read about our long weekend HERE.

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Three Day November 6-8, 2010 Saturday, Sunday, Monday 9:30 – 4:30

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"Minerals and Metals" ~ Contemporary Textured Abstract by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Minerals and Metals"
12" x 16" Mixed Media on Ampersand cradled 2" deep Hardboard

I have wanted to experiment with some of the techniques I learned in the Carol Nelson class in Arvada, CO in March which was a very organized 2 day workshop with metals in mixed media. In the workshop we worked on small pieces of MDF board but I chose an Ampersand panel for this piece. Carol Nelson is an excellent instructor and has an active blog and a web site.
On the above painting, I added lots of textured grounds to the archival hardboard panel. I attached copper strips, collaged pieces of painted paper, Tyvek, and used acrylic tube and liquid colors along with some metallics.
This is as close as I can get to a landscape. I've tried painting realistic landscapes and I'm never happy with the results so until I can successfully paint a tree I'll continue with these highly textured pieces. Golden has so many interesting mediums and additives to choose from to add a textured ground to your contemporary abstracts and they give an added dimension to any landscape.
I've found another artist I really like that works with heavily textured applications. Jac Kephart has work in the Santa Fe Gallery, Deloney Newkirk Gallery. I've found one local gallery, The Edmund Craig, in Fort Worth that has a few pieces. I wrote to Mr. Kephart back in the spring to ask if ever gave a workshop as I'd love to study with him. He wrote that he'd been painting this style of abstracts for about 12 years and just didn't have the time to give workshops any more and felt the time left for painting was limited as he was 70 years old. I didn't tell him this month I'll celebrate my 75th birthday and I understand the pressure of time. He did invite me to visit him in Grand Junction sometime if I were in the neighborhood. He also shows his work in Breckenridge and Denver, CO. Jac enclosed 2 photos of some of his earlier landscape pieces which are beautiful but I find the newer abstracts so much more exciting.
Is there anyone in your art life you'd like to spend the day with, maybe in their studio watching them work? At this stage of my art life I would choose Jac Kephart. Maybe next week I'll be off wanting to learn something else but today I'd like to observe Jac making his mixed media paintings...just some senior citizens talking art and we won't even think about the time factor.

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Art Journaling Workshop “Love Your Life” with Nancy Standlee

Three Day November 6-8, 2010 Saturday, Sunday, Monday 9:30 – 4:30

The Upstairs Gallery

1038 W. Abram

Arlington, TX 76013

Contact: J. T. Martin 817 277-6961 to register or

info@upstairsartgallery.com

"Ready to Crow" ~ Rooster ~ Painted Paper Mixed Media Collage by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Ready to Crow"
8 x 8" Mixed Media Collage on canvas board

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"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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Painted Paper Longhorn Collage ~ Jo Sonja ~ Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
Painted Paper Collage

Now on view at the Shanley House for the Granbury Juried Fall Festival Art Show and Sale, September 24-October 28. The reception was Saturday, September 25 and some surprising news. The above mixed media longhorn collage received an Award of Excellence, accompanied with a nice cash prize and a medal. Thank you. And thanks to my fellow, Canvas by Canvas painter friend, Connie for letting me use her fabulous longhorn photo. The Shanley House Gallery is located at 224 No. Travis, Granbury, TX. Art from the show can be viewed online HERE.

"Texas Tabasco" is one of my favorite Canvas by Canvas longhorn paintings and all 8 of us were photographing longhorns at every opportunity for some longhorn paintings. We have found when the animals are intent upon grazing little can distract them, yodeling, whistling, and all the hey-you's don't matter in the least. The Shanley House show judge said that "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" has personality and Connie, I've always loved that photo and thanks again for letting me use it. I don't know how you got his attention but you did good.

I received a Facebook Message from Chroma's Artists' Paints & Mediums that I was one of three August 2010 winners of their Jo Sonja Vintage Color Collection. I think these colors will make awesome painted paper collages with names like Cobblestone, Sea Grass, Russet, Husk, and Tarragon. The winners of the contest were randomly selected and chosen from comments made on the Chroma's Artists Facebook page. Thanks again Chroma for the gift.

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Art Journaling Workshop “Love Your Life” with Nancy Standlee

Three Day November 6-8, 2010 Saturday, Sunday, Monday 9:30 – 4:30

The Upstairs Gallery

1038 W. Abram

Arlington, TX 76013

Contact: J. T. Martin 817 277-6961 to register or

info@upstairsartgallery.com