Traveling Woman

12x9 mixed media on Canson 140 lb cold press wc paper completed today after a couple days work, another in my woman series. Beginning with several acrylics a primary color background was brushed on, then India ink applied with a chopstick for the features on this imaginary woman.  White areas then had watercolors put in, then lastly paper collage figure, receipt date, and postage stamps from Canada collaged.  Splattering was done with watercolor.
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Bad Boy

8.25x5.25 mixed media collage in my grunge/junk journal done over the weekend.  Over a gessoed page I collaged a page from National Geographic that was treated with CitraSolv solution; portions of original text and patterns can be seen.  Acrylics and antique staining ink used on the face and page to age it along with white gel pen in this imaginary gangster in my current outlaw series.
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One-eyed Outlaw in Grunge Junk Journal

8.25x5.25 mixed media collage portrait sketch of Cole Younger (1844-1916) in my grunge junk journal.  Sketched in hard charcoal pencil and black felt tip pen, on other areas I used colored pencils, marker (flesh tones), pencil, on tea stained old book page.  He was one of the Younger brothers gang who teamed up with the James brothers to rob banks and trains and spread murderous violence right after the Civil War.  Even though he's been dead 101 years it has not been that long ago as my grandmother was 12 years old in 1916.
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