In this mixed media painting a little black girl flies through the night in her orange gown and holds the moon while dreaming. The original painting is on cardboard and includes oil paints and oil pastels. The background swirls were created with puff paint to make them 3D and her…
Category: Art
Clay Works
These are the first little clay sculptures I’ve done in years. I started working with clay as physical therapy for my hands and found that I thoroughly enjoy it. The three bird candle holders shown were all done completely differently. The first bird starting from the far left is clay…
Square Box Junk Hiders
They’re made of acrylic oil and saw dust on square wooden boxes. The “hiders” can also be arranged on the wall vertically or diagonally, matching edges as you want. I like to make large earth like wall collages out of them by matching up the browns to look like an…
Home
“Home” is a simple oil and acrylic painting with a childlike feel. The idealistic setting of a white house and white picket fence is painted on textured cardstock. Instead of brightening the rainbow I used darker blues and a darker red then added a dark frame. This adds a nice…
Sisters on Vacation
The little sister to the big sister says,I’m mom’s favorite Big sister: What? No you’re not Little sister: Sure I am, she told me just yesterday.Big sister: She can’t like you too much, she made you come out here in the middle of nowhere in this blazing heat.Little sister: I…
Bella and Birdie
This multi-media piece was painted on tissue paper which was then mounted on a canvas sheet. The illustration shows a kitty and her little bird friend saying goodbye as the sun sets on their day.
Three Oceans, Three Pearls
I purchased polymer clay for $1.79 and liquid adobe clay for 90 cents. I then formed the clay, baked it for 20 min at 250 degrees, let it dry, painted it, sealed it and added hooks. These quarter size pearls were created specifically to match the three paintings I called…
Tulips To Music
Tulips To Music is part of my Flower A Day Project. On a canvas sheet I printed the music to the song Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. I then painted open tulips in oils, added a few minor details digitally and viola, there you have it, “Tulips To Music.” One of…
Watch Over Our Children
Copyright 2009-2010 @ Sundrip Journals. All rights reserved. It usually doesn’t take me 7 or 8 days to complete one painting but it looks like this one will need even more time. Seven days now but I’m getting closer. The painting shows a young African-American child walking through a field…
Garage Sale Gone Wrong
We all know one, love one, a person who can’t walk away from a garage sale. She’ll turn the car around in the middle of the street or leap over fences to grab a cheap doodad. There we are spectators in her compulsion. Helpless to stop her we choke on…