Three mixed media collage paintings that I finished up recently. Hope to sell these at the Bellefonte Art Gallery.
Butterflies and Flowers Mixed Media Collage Painting by Trilby Works
Butterflies and Flowers Mixed Media Collage Painting by Trilby Works
Butterflies and Flowers Mixed Media Collage Painting by Trilby Works
If you like these and want to make your own, see my directions for a similar piece here.
For me, artwork inspired by the beauty of springtime is all about color: vibrant sky blue, vivid new growth green, and sprinkles of crocus purple, bold orange, sunbeam yellow, and rich pink. And my favorite part of spring is the explosion of flowers in my garden.
A Springtime Celebration
In this trio of works, I started with canvas board and painted a background of blue and green. I added canvas flower shapes topped with bottle caps attached with heavy gel medium. I drew abstract flowers in Adobe Photoshop and printed them out onto thick paper, cut them out with a punch and glued them into the beer caps with matte medium.
A Springtime Celebration
Two of the collages have green floral wire for flower stems with leaves made from paper clay and painted green. The other piece uses green twine from the dollar store for the stems with folded and cut masking tape for leaves.
A Springtime Celebration 3
I covered the entire surface of all three canvasses with Liquitex pouring medium for a shiny, glassy finish to reflect the brilliance of spring.
This was a really fun project, with a happy, cheerful result! These paintings will be available for sale at the Bellefonte Art Gallery soon.
If you like collage flower paintings, check out my Pinterest board:
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“Great Leopard’s Bane” is a hand colored engraving by George Baxter from British Flowering Plants, published in 1840. Plate #157.
Great Leopards Bane George Baxter Botanical Print
Above is a low-res version, about 1000 pixels high at 72 ppi. You can download a high res version here.
Just finished this set of three collage paintings featuring orange dictionary paper flowers on a green collaged background.
Happy Orange Dictionary Paper Flowers Collage Painting
See my tutorial section to learn how I made them.
This is a great background for an invitation or for a scrapbooking page. The word at upper left is l’ete which means summer in French. At the bottom right is les fleurs which means flowers.
The file is a 8.5″ x 11″ 200 ppi pdf. You may use it for personal or commercial work but you may NOT sell the file in digital form NOR may you sell it in a printed format. Download the file here.
If you use it in something cool, please take a pic and send it to me or let me know in the comments. I’d love to see your work!
Cloth Paper Scissors, May/June 2013 Issue
Incite, Dreams Realized: The Best of Mixed Media, by Tonia Jenny, North Light Books, 2013
Art Doll Quarterly, Spring 2015. My Sorrowful Sister doll was chosen for the "Mothers and Daughters" challenge.
Prims, Fall 2015. My Griselda Hippo Witch doll was chosen for publication.
I just finished up some collage paintings. I make these with acrylic paint on a stretched canvas with old French dictionary paper cut outs for the hippo shapes. I color the dictionary pages with colored pencil, acrylic paint, charcoal pencils, or alcohol ink.
I've just completed my first art dolls and I'm unveiling them here first! They are made from paperclay with styrofoam balls and wooden dowels as an armature. They have yarn hair and coffee filter skirts. I call them my Sorrowful Sisters.
The Servants of Ord are finished! I've been working on these for most of 2012 and am happy to be done with them. They are the servants of Master Ord, who I haven't created yet, but I believe will be small and round and powerful, and possibly amoral. Find out more...
