Diamond

From my sketchbook. My beautiful cat “Diamond” contentedly napping. He lived til he was 16, a grand old age for a cat. He was a white American Shorthair with pale golden ochre colored eyes. He had personality, with a gravelly meow, and loved to have the top of his head scratched.

Texture Experiment

An experiment of texture and color using scraped acrylic paint that I let dry before working into the surface with pastels.

Altered Book

An altered book photographed in my backyard with Azalea branches and shadows. This is a project in progress. A discarded book that is evolving into art! The use of a book as a “ground” for painting and collage is not a new venture for many mixed media artists, but it is a new one for me.