'Frosted Autumn Leaves'

Quote of the day: "And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." Emily Kimbrough, 1899-1989, American writer

Original/Signed Piece
Mixed Media on Deep Cradle Canvas (Sides Painted)
12" x 12"

'Gourd'

Quote of the day: "We cannot prevent the black birds of evil from flying over our heads, but we can prevent them from building their nests in our hair." Chinese Proverb

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6" on matte board

'Another Glass of Wine'

Collage series continued...

Quote of the day: "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu, c. 600 BC, Chinese philosopher

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage on Paper

9" x 12"

'Garden Song'

Collage series continued...

Quote of the day: "One is nearer God's Heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth." Dorothy Frances Gurney, 1858-1932, English Poet

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6"

'A Trip To Emerald Coast'

This piece was displayed at the Viva Gallery in Sherman Oaks, California for the Collage Artists of America's 2006 Open Exhibition. I won an honorable mention. This art piece currently hangs in my parent's home.

http://www.vivagallery.org/exhibits/CAA_2006JuriedOpen/index.html

Quote of the day: "The purpose of life is to matter - to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all." Leo Rosten, 1908-1997, Polish-born American writer and humorist

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

12" x 14" (Framed)

'King Me'

This piece was displayed in National Collage Society's Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo, New York for the 2007 postcard exhibition.

Quote of the day: "There is a great man, who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." G.K Chesterton, 1874-1936, English novelist and critic

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6"

Bloomingdales Spree

More in my collage series. This piece hangs in my sisters home.

Quote of the day: "He who knows the light, and at the same time keeps the shade, will be the whole world's model." Lao Tsze (c. 604-531 BC)

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage (Framed)

24" x 30"

'R&R'

Another in my collage series.

Quote of the day: "Wait, thou child of hope, for time shall teach thee all things." Martin Tupper (1810-1889)

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage on Paper

9" x 12"

'Halloween Invitation'

Quote of the day: "The optimist is wrong as often as the pessimist. But he has a lot more fun." Anonymous

Original/Signed Piece

Collage on Paper

5" x 7"

Mackenzie, Hunter & Seth Mason's Halloween Creations

We were so bored while waiting for the electricity to come back on, so we went to the library and checked out a bunch of Halloween books which gave the kids inspiration for their attached drawings. They all wrote poems too. Hunter got the gold star for his poem which was short, but very creative.

Witches watch the time

Ghosts roast their toast

Pumpkins are punks

Mummies hum Hmmmmm

BOO!

Quote of the day: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

Picasso Inspired - Fruit Bowl

Quote of the day: "To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, English writer

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Canvas - Sides Painted

12" x 16" x 1"

Domino Effect

This piece was displayed in the National Collage Society's 9th Annual Postcard Exhibit at Cuyahoga Valley's Art Center.

Quote of the day: "The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another 'I' is beginning." George Sand (Amandine Dupin), 1804-1876, French novelist

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6" on 8" x 10" Matte Board

'Mrs. Jones'

This piece was displayed at the Butler Institute of Art's National Collage Society's 21st Annual Exhibit.

Quote of the day: "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." Johann Von Goethe

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

9" x 12"

'Wink'

This piece was displayed in the Beaux & Eros II Exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, California.

Quote of the day: "Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope. Without hope man is only half alive." Charles Sawyer, 1887-1979, American lawyer

Original/Signed/Framed Piece

Mixed Media

8" x 10"

'Fly Away Dream'

There is an element to children's art that surpasses that of adults, due to its purity and inability to be manipulated into something untrue. This piece I created reminds me of a dream I once had when life was hard and I just wanted to fly away in a cloud of balloons to someplace pleasant.

Quote of the day: "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher, historian and writer

Original/Signed Piece (Mixed Media)

Acrylic on Canvas Panel

8" x 8"

'Mexican Sunflower'

This painting represents Autumn at the end of this beautiful summer.

Quote of the day: "If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths. For they would feed my soul." Author unknown

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas

5" x 5"