THE FISHQUEEN
The Fishqueen pines for her true sailor love...

Another 8 X 10 mixed media collage on canvas board. Used the newspaper background with mica watercolors again. The female image is from an old postcard, and the cod fish are from a page I created in Illustrator and cut out. The vintage photo is of my daddy when he was a teenager working on a fishing boat. I think he's probably 15 or 16 here. Yep, that's 1958 on the date. Mom and dad started out YOUNG. That's more of the old tinsel there too, and a lovely pearl jewel from the junk store for The Fishqueen. Sponge stamped accents with mica watercolor, and butterfly wings from a magazine. The star is terra cotta, and the sea shell came from the sea :-)

DA KING

Well, I just can't seem to stop. Here's another 8 X 8 on canvas board. I really like the text and newspaper background with the mica watercolor on top. I'm going to keep experimenting with it and see what more effects I can come up with. This one looks like fish skin to me. Since I have a Mississippi theme going, and this one also covers musical roots, I think I might try writers next. Anyway, the studio is still a huge mess. I mean yikes!

THE CRYSTAL SKULL
One more. I think I may be about to burn out with this one. I don't really like it. Another 8 X 10. I like the background, but overall don't like the finished product. I used the text from a story I am in progress of writing. I used a skull image from a painting I did and I don't really like how it fits into the collage. But here 'tis.

Mica watercolors on fancy linen paper, with copied tarot card and magazine clippings. Also used stamps with mica watercolor. Yeh, there's a little purple glitter on there too, cuz that's just how I roll. It looks better if you click the photo for a full view. Yeehaw.

CROOKED LETTER-HUMPBACK BLUES

Here's another mixed media collage on an 8 X 10 canvas board. I used newsprint from a local publication with local events on it. I adhered the newsprint with gel medium, then used some to block areas so I could watercolor the paper with mica colors. I printed Mr. Johnson from the internet onto a piece of card stock and cut him out, then gave him butterfly wings. I used mica watercolor on sponge stamps and blotted them to make hazy designs here and there. Next I cut out Mr. Crow and put a crown on him, then I let a little moth light on Mr. Robinson's shoulder down in the corner. All this makes a nice mixed media piece with plenty of local color, and lots of bright artistic color.

VINTAGE PAPER DOLL COLLAGE
8 X 8 mixed media collage on canvas board. Consists of old paper doll found on internet and printed on cardstock, magazine clipping of rose and butterfly wings, old thimble, button, old broken earring from junk shop, and two colors of glitter for shine. Background is painted in acrylics on top of black gesso.

BLUE BUTTERFLY
I liked the prior butterfly piece a lot, so I tried another. This one is also an 8 X 10 on a board canvas. I clipped the butterfly from a magazine spread along with the flowers. I used black gesso and acrylic paints for the background. The lock and keys came from the junk store in Raymond and the mirror bits are Katrina trash. I added some colored glitter for shine. The frame is one I had laying around that looked pretty good for it.

CHIEF NANZETTA'S LINIMENT
Another mixed media project from this weekend. This one is 8 X 10 on a canvas board. I used black gesso, then painted the canvas black and mottled it with yellow ochre and black. Butterflies are clipped from a magazine. The chunk of mirror is Katrina trash, and the rest of the stuff is old jewelry and bits from the junk store in Raymond. The brass ring reminds me of the carousel at Balboa Park in San Diego. Threw a little tinsel on there for some shine. Even the frame is a junker, but I love how it goes perfectly with the piece. The Liniment flyer was rescued from the trash by my spouse, who got it from the frame shop where he works. They'd been laying around there forever. I have a few more, don't know if this stuff was for real or not.

TIME
First mixed media project in a while. 8 X 8 board canvas painted with acrylic. Broken antique doll, broken jewelry, poem I wrote and fixed up in Illustrator, crows clipped from magazines, other junk, plastered on with gel medium. Still a tad wet when I took the photo.

I call this "Time" as in "Time ain't yo' friend." Obviously.