Mexican Art...

These are the 3 paintings I did for the show at the Mexican Restaurant to celebrate Cinco de Mayo ...May 5th... This is the order that I did them in....The first one: I WILL ALWAYS BRING YOU ROSES....traditional sugar skull done on wood with acrylic paint....The second one: PIN STRIPES was a great deal of fun...cut the skull out of tin and then painted it with acrylic paint...embellished it with jewels and bottle caps then dusted it with very fine glitter to give it a sugary appearance... the background was stenciled black on black the skull and spine were raised up about a half inch off the wood background and then a metalic hew of oil pastels was used to outline the skull....the final look of the "pin stripes' was done with a metalic paint and Pearl Ex powder.....The last one: NO EVIL....is suppose to be a play on SEE..SPEAK... HEAR no evil in the form of a slot machine game....
Now, maybe I can get back to doing my regular stuff!! LOL....But what FUN I did have!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Gallery Show...

Here are 2 of the 3 paintings I did for the SMALL SHOW....which is a gallery show for pieces no bigger than 12 by 12....These 2 are 9 by 12....mixed media with embellishments! Both the bird and the butterfly were painted on 140 weight watercolor paper and then cut out and placed on wrapped canvas board...then 3-D to a piece of wrapped wood that had been textured with acrylic paint....then embellished....I have been working with the 3-D look and my art for the past several years and really like it...What the pictures don't reveal is that both the bird and the butterfly have been treated with Pearl Ex pigments that give them a very iridescent look... And of course anyone who knows me ...knows I like things that represent flight.....I am working now on a series of words that I am doing in a similar way....The show opens May 24th....at THE HIGH FALLS GALLERY in Rochester, NY....
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Random Acts Of Kindness (RAK)

These are two mixed media paintings that I did for 2 sisters who send the most amazing daily messages to my IN box!! I wanted to express to them how much they mean to me! Thank You Melody and Kathy of the BRAVE GIRLS CLUB! You can sign up for the news letter by going to:
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Each of the sayings came from something they said separately on their bio page. Each painting was done on a 8 by 10 flat canvas with a 5 by 7 canvas placed on top....the bird was painted with acrylic and H2O paint....torn paper...and ribbon....glass heart and metal heart....the bird was cut out of 120 stock water color paper and then 3-D on the smaller canvas over lapping onto the bigger on...the background is handmade paper.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie