Something a little different...

When you are a mixed media artist it's hard to say which medium or technique is your favorite. The beauty of being mixed media is the ability to follow your muse in any direction. Today I'm working on a new copper jewelry piece but a couple of weeks ago I was totally into painting and collage.. last week it was assemblage. Tomorrow I'll probably be working with clay... who knows?  In the meantime I thought I'd share one.. okay .. two of my most recent collage paintings.

This one has my more typical color scheme with lots of texture. I love playing with molding paste!

This painting was an exercise in using colors other than my usual and trying to keep things light.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Best... Canace

Something a Little Different

Recently I decided to re-visit an old love of mine.... oil painting. I'd turned my back for the past 20 years in favor of the excitement of mixed media art... finding landscape painting rather boring. I'm not totally sure why, but for some reason I needed to smell the paints and play with them again. So I've taken a few shots of the progression of a painting.. my first in 20 years.
 Those of you who know me know that the Hudson River flows through my veins. I was born here and have lived in the Hudson Valley all my life. (Long time btw) So, I decided I'd paint a river scene.

This is a very basic outline of intention with a light wash in the sky:

Next I decided to make the sky a bit more dramatic .. then added the mountains:

I still didn't like the sky all that well so fussed with it some more, then added the reflections in the river and a few rocks in the foreground for depth:

A few bits of grass and a small island and I called it finished:

 And now it's framed:  (Looked like it took about 20 minutes to do didn't it?)

It felt like visiting an old friend to paint in oils again. I'll just add it to the plethora of mediums to use now and again.

I hope you enjoyed the process.
Best... Canace