November 11: Air Mail

This is one of the paint wash + collage pieces that I am working on for my sketchbook class. I started with the 7x7 in. watercolor paper painted last week with an acrylic wash. I added the collage element from an envelope with canceled UK stamps. Then I drew the blue and red border design that reminds me of airmail packaging.

November 6: Indoors and Outdoors

Watching election results while working on my assignments for my sketchbook class. I have cropped portions of my gesture painting from the weekend. Now I am adding line and color to them with different media.

Earlier, I took a series of photos featuring the crows who were very active in the trees along our walking trail.

November 4: Big Gestures

Move over, Jackson Pollack. This evening I am working on a series of sketchbook assignments for my online class, taught by mixed media artist, Jane Davies. These are exercises, not finished products. In fact, when they dry, I get to cut them up and collage with them. I am having fun being an Abstract Expressionist in black & white.