student paintings

These two paintings were done by two of my local students. The first one by Anthony Hall is a life drawing done in conte over a black and sepia ink pour. He allowed some of the ink forms to become shaded areas for the figures. White conte was used to emphasise the highlighted areas. Good work Anthony....
The second painting is by Ella Holland. Ella started as an oil painter and has moved on to watercolor and mixed media. The small collage using hand altered surface papers by Ella is definitely eye candy. Contact artwithmoxie@cox.net for class information.

take a look

A small peek at what I have been doing...Art Unraveled has come and gone and now it's time to submit for next year. Ten days before convention I fell ( not so gracefully) and injured both knees. Sooo....I have been sitting a lot making art jewelry and painting small watercolors in preparation for some workshops. I will be posting some of the pieces on both of my blogs.

Also, don't forget to register at The Artist's Nook website for the third on-going Exploring Mixed Media workshop to be held in November at Fort Collins, Colorado.

happy birthday kayla

Happy Birthday Kayla

This is Kayla's first watercolor/collage, that's a painted half of a paper plate (found object) on top of her watercolor painting. I have used a photo of her and her painting, paper napkins from a trade, watercolor paint, and butterflies because they are her favorite. My collage to her is 11x15...what you see is just a portion of the painting.... she will be 5 on July 17.

dream mythology

Title: DREAM MYTHOLOGY

Size: 3 x 9

Mixed Media

One of many faces demonstrated at a How To Paint the Face workshop. The workshop includes the use of handmade papers with emphasis on design. The stamped images are from the CORY art stamp line available from AfterMidnight Art Stamps.

klimt challenge

Gustav Klimt is one of my favorite artist's. When Sharon Tomlinson suggested a challenge inspired by Klimt, I jumped at the chance. The approach to the 5x8 collage, is not the norm for me. (another challenge) I started with a scrap of an old watercolor painting, layered some transparent and opaque handcrafted papers, and proceeded to paint the face and hand with acrylics. Circles were cut from magazine pages and collaged in jig saw fashion along with two three dimentional doodle motifs. Handpainted textures finish the background. Visit Sharon's Blog to see her fun and wonderful artwork. You might even like to join the challenge.

#4 frottage mini tutorial

Here is a close up of the Frottage Painting. When I did the rubbing on the icon, I positioned the rubber stamp so that I would get a halo effect and avoided rubbing wax onto her face. The piece of frottage that is glued to the upper right corner, has silver wax lines that stop at the white and blue shape. I continued the flow of the lines using white acrylic to unify. There are three gold spots that break up the large orange shape. Line and shape was used to keep the viewer inside the painting. Scroll down to post #1 to read the tutorial. Go to http://www.art-with-moxie.blogspot.com/ to see the finished painting.

If you have any questions or are interested in taking a workshop, please contact artwithmoxie@cox.net

#3 frottage mini tutorial

Rip and arrange your frottages (rubbings) into a pleasant composition paying attention to the elements of design. I teach using five elements, line, shape, color, value, and texture. Move the images around until they feel right to you, and glue them onto the substrate with a light application of good old Elmers glue. I have used this glue for years and have not had any yellowing of my papers. Note: The bottom section of the icon frottage was ripped off and part was used on the upper right and mid left side of the collage. Unify the shapes using colored pencils, acrylic paint, chalks, etc. On this painting I used white acrylic paint and added a touch of gold leaf. Detail on post #4.