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This is an original piece made using the acrylic pour technique. Acrylic paint colors of turquoise, gold, deep greens and blues, and white are puddled with a pouring medium over a cotton canvas. The mound of color is tilted and stretched across the canvas until various color cells develop as the paints shift and swirl. The final result appears to be a moving body of water cascading into a waterfall. -
This is an original piece made using the acrylic pour technique. Acrylic paint colors of paynes grey, turquoise, white, burnt umber, blue, and viridian are puddled with a pouring medium onto a cotton canvas. The paint shifts as it is tilted and stretched across the canvas causing cells of various colors to form. A slight application of heat helps the cells emerge. The process continues until it develops into this seascape. It looks like the blustery swirls of the sea crashing along the rocky coast of Maine in the winter. -
This is one of the artist's favorite pieces. Surprised at how these flowers appear to be pansies when actually they evolved from many multiple layers of red everblooming rose bits and yellow daisies. A balance of positive and negative space, the overall effect is calm and sweet. -
This is a digitally enhanced version of an original piece from the flower abrasion series. The original piece is made of smashed cabbage and chard. In this version the bark of the plant turned purple and the sea became more violent. The colors enliven the piece. -
This piece is a very colorful version of a piece from the flower abrasion series. The original piece was made from smashed begonia and grass bits on watercolor paper. India ink and watercolor washes were applied and the piece was scanned. It was digitally enhanced, allowing us to see stalks of sea algae and coral sway underwater in the depth of the bluish purple sea. -
This is one of the artist's favorites of the flower abrasion series. On a calm summer morning bits of grape hyacinth, dianthus, impatiens, and rose petals were pounded onto watercolor paper. India ink searched for connections which left us with this stalk of color explosion. -
The purple color of the grapes began life as red flower bits smashed with a hammer to exude their pigments. The resulting color scale ranges from deep purple to mauve. Then India ink spheres were superimposed on the splotches of color to coax out the personality of this lively bunch of grapes. -
An original design of abraded carnation and rose petal bits was digitally enhanced. It resulted in the lime green change and pop to yellow and mauve against the pink background. -
The dried flower look of this piece was accomplished with the use of tiny bits of pink rose petals. They were smashed with a hammer to exude their pigment onto watercolor paper. Lavender was also pounded and India ink combined the petals into buds and blooms. The ink also added sweet whimsical freehand tiny purple petals on their stems. -
This is a digitally enhanced version of an original piece from the flower abrasion series. The original piece of smashed cabbage and chard was scanned then a blue fading background was added. The leaves changed to pink, and the bits of the original plan remnants dried on the page and created these red saturated areas. -
An explosion of color burst out of pounded out flower petals and leaf bits. Multiple layers of carnation, salvia, dianthus, and hydrangea are pounded with a hammer. India ink is used to outline the various color elements on the watercolor paper. Colored pencils further define the stems and leaves to create the sense of this flower bundle. -
The original design was made of rose, carnation, and leaf bits which were pounded out with a hammer onto watercolor paper. India ink drawings added to the design which was scanned and enhanced digitally. Saturations were deepened and a color background added, creating a lime green pop against a graduation of purple. -
In the Spring, the purple berries of the grape hyacinth bloom on the short stalk of the plant. Amazingly, the color the berries exude when smashed is this vibrant blue! On this quiet morning they were combined with grass findings and a stem from the pink almond bush. All sorts of delicate hand-drawn flowers dribble across the bottom of the page to welcome the arrival of Spring. -
This started as a silkscreen of an original work made with liquid plastic resin layered on glass. A silkscreen print of the original design was created by pouring various colors and squeegeeing them through the silk. Once printed, a blue watercolor wash was applied to the piece. -
This piece was surprisingly a very quick fluid work of art. There is great energy and joy expressed through the smashed daisy petal bits and leaves. -
This is a very successful version of a piece from the flower abrasion series. It is a scanned version of an original print made with smashed chard and cabbage leaves. The pale blue background complements the almost fluorescent glow of the orange leaves.
