Archive for January, 2010

Mixed Media Workshops

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Acceptance-737943Over the holidays, my cousin Douglas brought his entire family to Santa Fe to ski. The snow wasn’t great that weekend so his girls got to participate in an impromptu painting workshop that I held in my studio. The results were amazing. Miyabi, who is fifteen, made this collage piece  using a transfer of a vintage letter and photograph along with other collage elements.

Skye, who is three years younger did several mixed media pieces. This one with words and textures is my favorite.
The girls had both had experience painting with acrylics, but their mom hadn’t. Naomi produced this lovely, textured dragonfly  her first time out!

Point of View

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Years ago during classes at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, I learned that there was never any need to feel protective of my photographic images. At school, we often went out in groups to shoot at the same location and no matter how many people took photos standing in exactly the same spot, no two images were ever alike. That was proven true again when my friend Nancy Nickel and I went to a flea market in Paris and took pictures of the same head. Her collage piece is on the left and my photograph is below.
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More Pet Portraits

Monday, January 18th, 2010

BlueEyesMeet Luna. She hangs around Las Chivas, the coffee shop where I get my morning brew. Dana gives her huge milk bone treats which she promptly buries. You can visit her and my other dog portraits on my website.