Red Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90b Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I goofed and made the background of this one too dark. I tried adding highlights to the pear, to brighten it up, but hated how they looked and I took them back out. So it’s the dark, glowy pear of DQQM.
The maintenance guys have come and gone, and I not only have fancy, new locks but two shiny, new keys. Yay! It’s good to have a spare.
While they worked, the guys and I had a little chat about the Stompy Girls and their wake-and-bake activities. The smell in the hallway was so overpowering that while the locks were being changed, waves of stinkiness rolled into my apartment.
Golden Bosc Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I did this one a little differently, by starting with an acrylic glaze as a background. The collage bit isn’t so much collage as just using an ad straight from a catalog. I grabbed an old Ethan Allen catalog, thinking it might have something in the right color palette to use as a background, but then I saw this dining room scene with a bowl of pears, and I couldn’t resist. I did do a little bit of stamping across the bottom, to tie the two pages together, but the book is a little too tall for my scanner, so it’s mostly cut off. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d scan both pages separately and stitch them together, but I am so lazy, so that ain’t gonna happen.
red paper boat 