I have been pretty busy of late. This should give you a little information about what I’ve been up to.
Draw the Circle Wide – Layers $1,000 Mixed media collage on gessoboard 5-2017 30″ x 30″
The name of this collage is the chorus of a song we sing at the Unitarian Fellowship I attend. We sang it this summer while I was working on this mandala and it really fit with my vision for this piece. I regularly journal about things I’m grateful for, sometimes in a journal and sometimes in my art. So, on top of the collaged layers I did a variety of journaling and then included the eponymous lyrics.
For the next layer I used acrylic glazes to paint an iris on top of everything. I really wanted parts of all the pieces to be hinted at in the final product so I covered it with a large neutral glaze and used some hydrangea leaves as masks to keep some of the layers visible. Then I…
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lunanista 
I am thrilled to see all this work and applaud your persistence and your talent. Just fantastic. I love that there are so many layers, literally and figuratively, to your work.
Thank you so much. I have neglected many other things in getting this show together. It has been nice to catch up with you on your blog. I really love seeing your process.
Thank you. And doing a show is really hard, I congratulate you on getting yourself and your work and the exhibit all there and now out for people to see. You must be very happy.!!!
I’m very happy about it. It was so rewarding to walk into the room where my work is displayed and to think, “I did this.”
Yes! And if you are like me, it helps you see your work in a more detached way, for what it is, separate from what you thought it might be or think it is. It is just being itself there, and people seeing it. Sometimes that is what is needed to realize how good one’s work is, just that little bit of context change and a little distance. Fantastic.