CURRENT WORK

My passion for color was excited by the colorful tissue wrapping paper that was being balled up and thown out at baby showers and birthday parties I had attended. I asked if I could have it and the hosts were delighted to be rid of it and surprised at my delight. I had already been making paper out of junk mail but it was rather grey and cardboard like and I looked forward to using it for rocky repressentations in landscape painting. Now I had a whole spectrum of fabulous in these wild tisssue paper colors. My excitement was increasing and I ordered a half-dozen large gallery-wrap canvas,  several quarts of medium glaze acrylic, and some medium glaze gel acrylic for binders. I was ready to go.

The gallery-wrap canvas didn't need framing (although the purchaser who desired frames could add them) and I planned to take the subject matter right around the edges top, bottom, and sides for a 3 D effect. The Series was entitled "Natural Elements: Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire" and within a three month period I had produced 22 pieces -- 9 of them 30"x30" and the remainder in various smaller sizes. I found the junk-mail paper rather stiff to work with as it was about an eighth of an inch thick. With an application of glaze, however, it begame quite pliable. The tissue paper was the greatest fun to work with for it could stretch, bundle, or jumble if I put on a straight piece and then punced my brush on it for 3D effects. Most of the pieces became bas relief and with several application of a medium glaze of acrylkic had the touch of leather. A wet cloth run gently over the canvas will clean off any collected dust. You may view a portion of them in the work below in the slider viewing.