LAST PAINTING OF THE SUMMER
This is my last painting with Ms. Atkinson for the summer. It's a little 8 X 10 piece on a canvas board. My time with her has flown by now. I'm off to new ventures with new instructors at my new school. I will miss painting with her. I've learned much and made a dear friend.

A new era awaits. Let the adventure begin.

Vegas Dress Shop
This is a digital photo I took on a trip to Las Vegas a couple of years ago. It is inside of a dress shop in the Mandalay Bay Casino complex. I always thought it was nice picture. I decided to play with it in PhotoShop to make it look really artsy. I like the effects I got with the filters I applied to it. I think it could be ready for an art show!

JUST BE
This is a collage on a black mat board with white gesso. It measures 8 X 10. I used ink and a stamp for the background, with a piece fancy fiber paper. The flowers are clipped from an ad. I had saved the nude image from an old calendar. The butterflies are a tape transfer I made, and two acetate images I altered. Obviously the letters are clipped from a magazine. Here and there in the background, I added a bit of torn tape transfer that I made from a piece of scrapbook paper with a music theme. That is where the "2" on her hip came from as well.

This is a fairly uncomplicated piece. I think that's what makes it nice though. The nude image is pretty enough without a lot of fanfare.