Fortune

Fish and Fortune

Christmas Sky

Recycled Paper from Junk Mail

Primed and painted

Simple big brush strokes

Lots of stars

Christmas night sky.

Swimming Against

Goldfish and Moon

The gold of the fish

The blue of the moon

Upstream, downstream

Found Objects

Great Good Fortune

Cast off cast paper background

formed in a wooden square mold.

dried and cracking and beautiful.

Laid out objects

The mask of grocery store bags formed into a mold

from a face cast

laid out

with

a tin can lid

and

Great Good Fortune.

3 moons in a row.

Simple Shape Stamps

Stamped Treescape

Triangles for trees.

Loaded up with paint with a brush.

Stamped in a row.

On a piece of painted newspaper.

Stamped Triangle Trees

The same triangle tree shape.

Stamped on a different piece of painted newspaper.

Another triangle treescape.

Color Block Cards

Painted Paper with Painted Glue

Painted Paper Color and Texture

Painted Paper with Glue

After a day of priming and painting newspapers

I get to the day of card making.

How to put the blocks of painted paper together?

Not as easy as I thought.

The picture of how I thought it would be in my head

does not match what the paper will do.

Have to let go of the picture in my head and see

what the painted papers can become on their own.

Christmas Tree Papers

Christmas Card

Repainted Newspaper with Red and Green

Tall Triangles

Snowflake Paper Punches

Star Paper Punch on Top

The Inside

Repainted Newspaper in Red

More Star Punch Star

White Paint for Star Sky

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Handwritten with Fabric Paint on

Repainted Paper

Fold, Insert in Envelope (repainted), Send

Templates for Moon Dancers

Three Figures

The templates for the Dancing Moon Figure.

Cut from an empty Stevia box.

She needed to have her arm taped back on.

Blue painters tape.

Moon Dancers

Dancers In the Night Sky

The paper figures are cut from recycled newspapers.

I used a single figure.

I cut it out of painted newspaper that was painted on both sides. 

 I used both sides to change the figure some.

Two more versions of the Moon Dancers.

GoldFish

Fish Fun

Strips of painted newspaper.

CUT-OUT simple yellow fish.

Paper punch eye and spots.

Swim fish swim.

Trout Continued

Collage Trial

Laying out the parts to figure out

the puzzle....

This fish

with circles, stars and feathers....

the beginning

of collage

Fish Fortune

Trout Good Fortune

By lying the cutout shape of the fish over the painted

and printed newspaper

I was able to find some areas that seemed like a trout.

The trout of good fortune and prosperity .

Theactual word in Chinese for fish translates into "abundance."

The trout of abundance.

Crow Moon

What is the source of these ?

Upside down thinking and sudden bursts of strategic dreamspeak.

Claiming the crow as  automatic messenger.

 Mystery.

Offerings to Paper and Aqua

Recycled Boxes as Canvases

Recycled Boxes as Art

Crows of a Feather

Monoprint Crows

Using the medium weight cardboard from a discarded box

I cut out the crow shape to use

to print with.

I did use the crow shape and have some prints with it

but these are from the cardboard that was left behind.

I used some primer on it first.

I painted both sides to help it hold up to the painting and printing.

Then I brushed on a combination of black, brown and red paint

and printed onto a painted piece of newspaper for the top

bird and a painted piece of

cardboard on the bottom.