Green Bay Packer ~ Torn Paper Collage Painting ~ Super Bowl ~ by Texas Contemporary Painter Nancy Standlee

"Green Bay Packer" Aaron Rodgers Super Bowl 2011
30 x 24 in. Torn Paper Collage Painting on gallery wrapped canvas

I've varnished and put the wire on this large (for me) torn paper collage painting of Aaron Rodgers for the sports art show opening next Wednesday. Super Bowl fever is heating up around Arlington TX. Yes, I looked through some of my food magazines and found some cheese to collage on the painting but I don't know if it's Wisconsin Cheddar or not. When I was at the Derek Gores workshop in Florida in December I watched a Vince Lombardi movie on TV in the motel in the evening and it has led to wanting to collage a sports figure and I liked the colors in the Green Bay Packers and I've done my share of research this week to add special touches to the collage such as Aaron's birthday.

Some of the information for the art show has changed since my last blog post. Here is the update:

F6 MMXI Art Bowl
F6 Gallery
Feb 3-5, 2011
11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Lincoln Square, Suite 225 (next to Jason's Deli)
For info go to http://www.lincolnsquarearlington.com/
For information about the event and free Super Bowl Parking go here
http://www.lincolnsquarearlington.com/superbowlevent.php
Check here for a MAP of the area

Artist Reception will be Feb 3 at 7:00 and a Gallery Walk at 7:30

Canvas by Canvas will be in the art show and will exhibit some of their recent Cowboy Stadium paintings. So please come out and visit with the artists sometime during the 3 day event. We will be there for the Gallery Walk for sure.

Other events can be found here

http://www.northtexassuperbowl.com/ (click on EVENTS)

http://livingsocial.com/cities/20-fort-worth/articles/14071-best-under-the-radar-art

http://www.artandseek.org/event.php?id=25318

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"A Chance to Dance" ` Super Bowl Torn Paper Collage Painting ~Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"A Chance to Dance"
16 x 20 Torn Paper Collage Painting

This Super Bowl Football Helmet is one of my entries into the F6 Sports Art Bowl MMXI show February 2 - 5, 2011 in the Lincoln Square Shopping Center, open daily 12 noon until 11 p.m. When I delivered my Arlington Museum of Art donation, see post HERE, I saw a great football themed art exhibition by Steve Moya with REAL football helmets sitting around. I never travel without my camera so I took photos of some of the helmets in this exhibition because I doubt that I would come near anything football for the rest of 2011. Steve had some great football themed art along with the helmets. Where does one get all these football helmets?
This sports themed show will be a first for me because I am not very "into" sports but this has been fun and I even watched a little football Sunday to see who would be playing in the Cowboy Stadium for the big Super Bowl Celebration February 6. Arlington, TX. is busy with preparation so please visit our Super Bowl Show. I am working on a 30 x 24 collage of a Green Bay Packer that I HOPE to have ready for the show. Yes, I found a picture of a piece of cheese to put in the collage but it is a long way from being ready to post on this blog.

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Impressionist Figurative Acrylic Paintings ~ Lylas~ Arlington Museum of Art ~ Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

LYLAS - Carol
9 x 12 Acrylic on canvas

This is one of my impressionist "angel women" that I love to paint using stamps and a loose style. Lylas - Love You Like a Sister and then a name of a friend makes up the title. You will probably see more of these because I count 3 Robert Burridge workshops for 2011. Wow..did I really sign up for that many? He will surely get tired of all of my questions. I'll be in the ones in Dallas, Granbury, and Dena's. You can check his website for links if you're interested in joining me; however, there could be a wait list as if it's a Burridge there is a good possibility of a long wait list.

Blue Cloud Angel
8 x 10 Acrylic with some collage on Canvas

I took this piece to the Arlington Museum of Art yesterday as a donation for the "Pennies from Heaven" 20th Anniversary Gala and Art Auction, February 19, 2011, a project to underwrite roof and air condition repair. Raffle tickets are available for Southwest Airlines for two, anywhere Southwest flies. I'm buying some of these for sure. Email the Museum for more info at ama@arlingtonmuseum.org.

I'm a member of Canvas by Canvas, a collaborative painting group, and we have donated one of our paintings for the Gala auction. We each one paint a different square and we draw for our square and we vote on the name. I'm so glad to get rid of this one because I could never pronounce his name. Click HERE to see him on our website.
"La Diosa Roja" ?? Did I vote yes to that name? I probably voted for "Red Longhorn". Anyway he's a beautiful longhorn and stop by the museum to get a good close up look.

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"In the Beginning" ~ Art Journal Page ~ Strathmore Online Workshop

"In the Beginning"
Strathmore Visual Journal
90 lb. 9 x 12 in.

Strathmore is hosting 3 online journal workshops and the first one started January 1. I have just now been able to work on my page for the first lesson about recycling some of your art work. The class hosted by Pam Carriker will be open until August 2011 so grab your journal and come join us. This first class has 1216 members and 887 photos of recently made journal pages. What a great opportunity to be inspired to begin or add pages to your journal.
Sign up by clicking here:
http://www.strathmoreartist.com/vjworkshop2011.html

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Sketchbook Project 2011 ~ Art Journal Workshop ~Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

Art Journaling Workshop
Dena Wenmohs Ranch
July 2010

I didn't know much about the Sketchbook Project 2011 when I signed up but it sounded like it might be something my 2 "Love Your Life" art journal classes would enjoy while we were working in our journals at Dena's ranch. Click HERE to read more about this class on a previous blog post. Several posts during July also discuss the class. The time has come to mail in our journal book and today I added some information to our online portfolio.
Go here to see the images.
Sketchbook Project 2011
http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

Click on Browse Participating Artists on the right
Enter Name Nancy Standlee
Click on my profile photo to see some of the entries

I made a slide show about the Sketchbook Journal. I chose the theme "Storybook" and let each student tell their own story in words and art. I did teach a November class at the Upstairs Gallery but it seems no one had time to make a journal entry.
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Torn Paper Collage Portrait Painting ~ Texas Contemporary Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Charles"
Torn Paper Collage Portrait Painting
18 x 18 in. on canvas

This is my second collage portrait since taking the Derek Gores workshop in Florida December 11 and 12. To see the first collage portrait go to my blog post HERE. This is a Christmas gift for a friend and I included some personal touches in the painting, sports, A&M, crossword puzzles, his daughter's name, etc. I'm enjoying this process so much I'm now asking friends to save me their old magazines!

I found this collage artist in the January issue, 2011 of Southwest Art Magazine and if you like torn paper collage you will enjoy looking at his site. Click HERE for Richard Curtner's Art.

Wishing all my blogger friends and readers a very Merry Christmas from Texas.

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Derek Gores Collage Portrait Workshop ~ Florida by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

"Dance Me"
18" Collage Portrait

I'll never look at a magazine page the same way again since returning LATE this morning from the Derek Gores Collage Portrait Workshop, December 11-12, 2010 at the Brevard Art Museum, Renee Foosaner Education Center, Melbourne, FL. The workshop was over at 4:00 PM Sunday and plans were to return the rental car, catch the 6:28p to Atlanta but the plans did not take into account for Atlanta's bad weather and Delta slowing down. Instead of a DFW 11:23p arrival time it was more like leave Atlanta at 1:00 am and not getting into my bed until 3:00 am but it was certainly worth the waiting time to meet 22 new artist friends and study with this famous collage artist. Did I get anything productive done in all these waiting times and hours? No - just purchased more magazines to tear up and to try to quiet my buzzing head filled with torn paper collage images.
The Students:
We had 22 students, 21 ladies and one male, and plus one male observer part time. It probably is a draw for distance traveled between me and the lady from Rhode Island but I bet I win on longest time to get back home. I've never been in this area of FL and I met people from Melbourne, Kissimmee, Titusville, Cocoa Beach - names vaguely familiar but now you can put a face to the names and definitely add some Facebook friends.
The class description:
"In this collage portraiture workshop Derek will teach you to use torn paper to capture a portrait in a fresh new way! You will make one finished portrait of any person you choose. Or if you're inspired to make a collage of something other than a person, that is fine too! Derek will demonstrate, and guide you through the process of drawing, selecting your colors, and building up your collage layer by layer. "
I chose to keep some friends and do my own portrait. I took the photo in my kitchen using the gorilla pod on the kitchen table with a timed feature on the camera.
The Class:
Saturday was spent getting our images down on canvas and discussing composition and scale and positioning that first piece of collage paper. (I brought my piece drawn off so it gave me some walking around and observing time.) We were urged to use the biggest pieces first to glue down and get it covered in 30 minutes - NOT me or anyone else. Derek then warned us not to wait to get those eyes in until 3:30 Sunday. That's one reason my background is nice and layered is putting off working with the features. He had one rule for us "Don't use hair for HAIR." On my portrait if you click on the image to enlarge you can see some diamond jewelry pieces I've used for hair. (I brought some fur images just in case.) I had ripped out some magazine pages and divided them into colors in jumbo plastic bags with appropriate labels, red, black, text, personal items, white, etc. but I'm not for sure I'd need to do that next time or just maybe for the dominant color.
Derek was available to the class, answered our questions and spent a lot of time walking between the tables consulting with each student. In the slide show I didn't get a photo from each artist I'm sorry to say and I don't have the names of the work with the artist.
Derek spoke of having a history of time in art and my piece does have a history, the too white stage, then my neighbor Karen had gotten a beautiful glow with sewing pattern pieces, so I did that, didn't like the effect and added more white pieces while remembering what my collage teacher, Gerald Brommer said.. "You can keep adding collage until you can't pick it up."
Derek described his way of working as random and couldn't give us a definite sequence to follow and advised us to work large, loose and keep adding layers until you get it right and let the painting take you where it wants to go, ending up with a collage painting that is more than you could have imagined on your own.
I remembered a Pablo Picasso quote: "I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

Derek Gores Collage Workshop June, 2011 in Texas
If you would like to attend a Derek Gores collage workshop in 2011 check with Dena at the Wenmohs Ranch. I'll see you there as I'm already signed up and thanks Derek for my first portrait collage workshop in FL. He is scheduled for another workshop in FL in February if you can't wait until June. Thanks Florida friends for your hospitality and help with restaurants and hints and now Dena invites you to Texas to take with Derek in June.


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