Cards by Cathrina

Here is the 4th in the series:

My international women’s group has an art group that meets each month. The pixs below are the result of a delightful afternoon of art and socializing.

Lynn, the coordinator, prepared packages with 4 pieces of hand made paper (recycled from envelopes that we used to send in our Christmas party reservations – very ecolo) along with adhesive backing. The project was to paint, crayon, ink or whatever a pattern on each of the four squares and then cut them into pieces, rearrange on the adhesive backing, then with an iron glue them to the backing.  Voila the results: (mine in large format… this is my site!).

Thank you Lynn!

These works are in various stages of completion.

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Chris Cozen,  an artist friend of mine with whom I have exhibited, just published a book called Acrylic Solutions.  (available on Amazon)  Chris does fabulous mixed media works using color, textures, and layers… lots of transparencies.  I have always wanted to try her methods and this book has inspired me.  I have started with gesso and texture and have color and other collage. Below you can follow the work as it progresses from stage to stage.

Arlo at Play:

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Birds:

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Fish:

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