Small-Art Compendium

Notation 23 Mixed media on Stonehenge paper Monotype, collage, graphite, ink 7" x 5"

Notation 22 Mixed media on Stonehenge paper Monotype, collage, ink, graphite 7" x 5"

Notation 21 Mixed media on Stonehenge paper Monotype, collage, graphite, ink 7" x 5"

Notation 19 - Kimono   Notation 20 - Sakura Mixed media on Stonehenge paper Monotype, ink, graphite, collage 5" x 7"

It's been awhile but it sure is good to be back! Notation 17,  Monotype, Ink, Col. Pencil, Graphite, Collage Notation 18, Monotype, Ink, Col. Pencil, Graphite, Collage Mixed Media on Stonehenge paper 5" x 7"

Notation 15 Collage Hand-painted rice paper, graphite, cold wax on archival paper Image size: 3.5" x 2.5" Mat size: 10" x 8" Out of clutter, find simplicity. ~Albert Einstein

Notation 14 Collage Found paper, painted rice paper, cold wax on archival paper Image size: 3.5" x 2.5" Mat size: 10" x 8"

Notation 13 Collage Found papers, painted papers, graphite, cold wax on archival paper Image size: 3.5" x 2.5" Mat size: 10" x 8" : : The next few are the last of the wee collages with the cold wax medium. I wish I could find a satisfactory way of working with the cold wax, but I haven't found it yet. : : I'd love to be able to work in true encaustic but my asthma objects. Wax (hot or cold) and me just don't seem able to get along. *sigh*

Notation 12 Acrylic on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" Mat size: 8" x 10"

Notation 11 Oil and cold wax on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" Mat size: 8" x 10"

Notation 10 Cold Wax and Oil on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" Mat size: 8" x 10"

Notations 9 Collage Book paper, book spine, graphite on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" Mat size: 8" x 10" :: The red paper in the last few collages came from a hardcover copy of Jane Eyre I found in a second hand book store in NW Denver. :: Someone had written, "January 17, 1963, mild weather" at the top of the page. Nothing about Jane Eyre is 'mild weather' so the inscription intrigued me. Did the writer refer to the weather in the Mile High City all those years ago, or did the book migrate to Denver in the course of its life from elsewhere and describe the weather (or affairs of the heart) there? Literal or figurative? Who knows. I like the mystery. Jane would approve, me thinks.

Notation 8 Collage Book papers and book spine on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" :: these red ones really appeal to me

Notation 7 Collage Book papers on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5"

Notation 6 Collage Book papers on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5"

Notation 5 Collage Book papers and spine on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5"

Notation 4 Painted rice paper and cold wax on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5"

Notation 3 Mixed media collage Painted rice paper, found paper, cold wax on archival paper Image size: 2.5" x 3.5" Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom ~Basho

Paper Landscape 4 Painted rice paper, found papers, graphite, cold wax on Stonehenge Image size: 2. 5" x 2.5" Paper size: 4" x 4"

Paper Landscape 3 Painted rice paper, cold wax, graphite on Stonehenge paper Image size: 2.5" x 2.5" Paper size: 4" x 4" recent obsession :: lime green