Bonus Art: Commingle Too!

As many of you know I recently showed some pieces in Michele Jacot's show, Commingle Too; the second of its kind. It was a fantastic event and everyone had a great time. I showed pieces in Michele's first Commingle event as well, so this year I was much more relaxed about the whole thing and had much less nervousness about showing my work.

Michele had seen some of my cut paper work before and requested some similar pieces for the show. I obliged, although since I ended up using a different technique the look of these pieces is quite different from the ones she'd seen before. People actually kept assuming they were paintings rather than paper media.

The lighting at Hugh's Room wasn't terribly conducive to taking photos, and there were lots of glare issues as a result of the acrylic medium, but these are the best shots that Andrew was able to get that night after trying multiple angles. Without further ado, here they are:

(Click the pictures to see larger versions.)

"Brown On Blue"
16x20
paper and acrylic medium

The octopus is my favourite, and was the piece used for the silent auction that night. I was thrilled in the end that it went to the home of a dear, lovely friend and may actually end up enjoying shared custody between two dear, lovely friends! I was so in love with both of the papers that I used for this that I plan to use up every single scrap that's left from them.

"Mostly Positive"
4 8x10
paper and acrylic medium

These four trees were all about the funky paper I used to cut them out of. It was a series of patterned paper and I couldn't resist the colours and designs. They reminded me of the seasons and each tree is actually mean to represent one of the four. I know which, but I'll let you decide for yourselves.

"Three Little Friends"
12x16
paper and acrylic medium

I used more of the beloved octopus paper for this one, and then used pages from the destroyed book, "The Little Friend," to add the birds and cloud. The title is obviously a play on the book name, but my favourite part of this piece is that the text on the pages used is from a very scary and disturbing bit from the later chapters and so if you read it it really clashes with the cute, friendly feel of the piece. This one is also now living with a dear, lovely friend. The friend who gave me the book in the first place!

"Warming Weather"
8x16
paper and acrylic medium

I had the positives from the trees I cut out for the "Mostly Positive" piece and wanted to put them to good use, so created this as a sort of complementary piece. I used more pieces of pages from "The Little Friend" for the background and layered a single sheet of pale blue crinkled tissue over it, then added the bookend trees. I liked the feeling it gave me of trees at the tail end of winter when the air is warming but it's still too cool for buds.