Art Blog Gallery

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art, collage, gallery, Mixed Media, painting, paintings, patterns, Zendala, zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangles

I have created an updated gallery on my Jeanette Clawson Art blog. I hope you stop by and see what I’ve been up to.

New post on my other blog!

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collage, flower collage, Mixed Media, Sunflower, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

I have submitted a collage to an upcoming exhibit. See the details on my professional blog Jeanette Clawson Art.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

 

Mandala 41 with Rhododendron

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100 Mandalas, collage, flower collage, Flower of the Day, Mandala, paper collage, paper flowers, Rhododendron, zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art

Here is the metamorphosis of my collage.

I added some layers of paper and paint and was getting happy about it.

I’m not super happy with what happened with the Dr. Ph. Marten’s watercolors, but I’m enjoying the collage. What I have learned from my other attempts is that I need the background to be more monochromatic for the mandala to show up clearly. So I added some white with leaves as a mask.

This is something I quite enjoy so I created my mandala on tissue paper.

I played with different colors on the paper and shading on the tissue paper. I am very happy with the result. Putting them together is always tricky.

I developed some tears in the mandala and I had been thinking about adding some flowers to cover the watercolor blobs, too. So I played around with making different paper flowers. A few rejects ended up in my art journal. I was happy with how my rhododendrons turned out so I put them together. I’m not thrilled with the final product, but I’m really happy with my learning curve and I’m going to put it on Esty and FineArtAmerica. So feel free to buy it or a print of it!

Thank you Cee for your flower photography reference!

I hope you have a beautiful day.

 

Arting from Acrylics to Zentangle

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, collage, Derwent Inktense, inspiration, Watercolor pencils, Zentangles, ZIA

Got a start on my Mother’s Day Cards.

Added some Derwent Inktense to the Zentangle® Inspired Art. Not sure if its done yet.

After this I was really itching to do some collage. I’m going to do another painting redo. I got too busy to show you how my last one turned out.

The original painting from a class I took was a sunset winter landscape in shades of blue and orange/yellow – not really my style, but nice enough. I did some collage on top and then added a tissue paper mandala and did some embellishing and here it is. It is getting toward what I want. I learned a little about doing detailed drawing on tissue paper and then putting it on a colorful background – it gets totally muddled. In any case I’m counting it as mandala #40.

So here is the first step of my next try. I have a landscape that I started, but it didn’t go quite right.

So now I’m off to collage over this. I hope you have a beautiful day!

I Love Spring

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acrylic paint, art journal, Art Journal Every Day, collage, flower, Mixed Media, Mixed-media art journal, Spring

Gratitude usually abounds for me in the spring. I love spring flowers. I love spring candy (even if I can’t eat it anymore) and I even love spring rain. Here are the pages from my last week or so. I’ve been painting a lot – both the small paintings and the backgrounds of pages in this journal so you will see more cohesive and intentional painting in the next few gratitude journal posts. The 50 small paintings book is due back at the library tomorrow so I’m going to hit the paint while I have it. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get it again to do justice to a few of the more complicated pictures I want to paint.

Some of this is progress on the community mandala, some is my 2 (fairly) new yoga classes that I am loving!!!! I’m trying to make to do lists again. I got away from them for a while but I love making and checking them and seeing them in my journal pages. Lots of green writing because I love green and life is so green and fecund these days. Breathe it in!

Marsh Mandala

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paintings, collage, Horicon, Jersey Street Music Festival, Mandala, mandala collage, painting, paper collage

I just finished an 8×8 canvas board collage for the Horicon Phoenix Program fundraiser for the Jersey Street Music Festival in Horicon, WI. Mike and I greatly enjoyed the free concerts that this organization sponsored during our summers in Wisconsin. Here is the process and the product I donated, mandala 39/100.

Here is a combination of collaged papers and different paint techniques I used to cover the canvas.

I have found that I enjoy drawing mandalas on tissue paper over a basic mandala template for mandala collages. I added some paint on top and here is the finished product.

I sent it out in the mail today. If you would like to purchase this piece it will cost $50, or you can purchase a random piece for $25. The proceeds of the sale support the Jersey Street Music Festival and help a small town stay vibrant. I have to say that I love supporting the Jersey Street Festival from New Jersey. What a funny coincidence.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

 

Community Mandala Update

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100 Mandalas, collage, community art project, community mandala, Mandala, Sacred Geometry, torus mandala

I’m so happy to be able to update you on the status of the community mandala. All of the pieces are in! We had an art party at church today and finished all the pieces. Now I will need some time to assemble it. I will be away for the next week, but I hope to complete it soon.

The collaged gessoboard with the torus mandala drawn on it.

Our process today.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

 

Celebrating 23 Years

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acrylic paints, art, art journal, collage, paper collage

Last Sunday was our 23rd anniversary! We went out to a play on Saturday and to dinner with friends on Sunday. Also on Sunday people started bringing their pieces of the community mandala back. We got less than half of them back and I’m hoping we get a lot more this week. They used my Celestial Mandala as the cover for the order of worship. That cover is covering up a mandala that I started that was not coming together. I have too much going on this week to wrestle with it, so I added a more relevant layer.

I used some modeling paste on the left hand page and played around with different ways of coloring it. I used part of this Vogue pattern in the background of the community mandala and added it here. It interacted interestingly with the modeling paste. I think in the future I would layer tissue first and then modeling paste, but I do like them together. You may also notice I got a new White Sharpie! I’m working on using black and white for contrast in my pages.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

Community Mandala Prototype

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100 Mandalas, Altered books, collage, community mandala, Gessobord, gratitude, paper collage, torus mandala

I’m coordinating a community mandala project at my new church this Sunday and I’m a little nervous. The mandala will be 36″ x 36″ and I have never made one this big. Here is the prototype.

You can see my boys and my cats peeking out of it. My husband is implied with so many of the meaningful papers. A lot more people and ideas that are important to me are incorporated into this mandala of me. It includes fabric and lots of ephemera. This is my first one on Ampersand Gessobord and I love it! The Gessobord is covered with pages from my Pilgrim’s Progress from 1877. My mother-in-law gave it to me and I’m not sure she believed me when I said it is one of my favorite gifts of all time! This is mandala #32 of 100.

Illuminated Box #3 and Mandala 26

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, acrylic paint markers, altered box, collage, storage

I’m not done with the top of this box, but the rest is good to go. I used a variety of paint markers for this. I wasn’t really crazy about the Liquitex markers, but I did like the Permapaque markers.