‘batman’ nosferatu. Collage on canvas. Maybe not finished. There are a lot more of these at the end of this section.
and it wasn’t. I added more polka-dots.
‘fear is the mindkiller’ bookcase. Bookcase, paint, text from the novel ‘Dune’. I drew the cracks with a pencil.
The other side of the bookcase.
‘the blind eye’ assemblage. Tin shrine, eye, rhinestones, beads, watch face, text.
‘spatter to your heart’s content’. Assemblage. Resin heart, shadow box, eye, text. I made a couple of resin hearts. I cut the text from a thesaurus and a paperback book. The resin heart has watch parts, beads, and glitter. I like making small assemblages.
‘Green antique marble’ assemblage. Old clock body, antique green glass marble, antique finial, silicone seal, glass, glue, plastic tube. This doesn’t have any text to go with it yet. I got all the components from the antique show in Brantford on the labour day weekend.
Memento vitae, made from a broken hourglass.
Glass hourglass, watch spring, plastic heart, marble, glass glob, watch faces, beads, waxed thread, text.
The next memento vitae. Waiting for me to go to the beach to collect the objects.
Memento vitae, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 2013. Glass jar, sand, shells, beads, stone, tag. This commemorates our trip to Punta Cana with our friends from England.
Eye see you assemblage. Shadow box frame, misc collected objects, paint, glue.
‘the looky-looky eye’, assemblage. Shadow box frame, eye, hologram glasses, collage, letter beads, paint, glue. From the poem ‘a jewel beyond compare’, #692 v:44
You close your eyes and drift away,
I tell myself a lie,
the sky had dark momentum and
the look looky eye.
I collaged some text cut from an old book onto a globe I got at the thrift shop. Of course, I added some jewels.
The collaged ‘found’ text.
Memento Vitae Jan 1 2021, Long Point beach. Wide-mouth jar, sand, glitter, flotsam, waxed thread, beads, photographs, stones, glass finial, tag. Jo and Steve, trip to the beach. I like colourful bits of plastic flotsam.
I’ve been working on this found wood sculpture for a few weeks now, off and on. I made arms last night out of wire and beads.
The head of the sculpture. All my dolls are named ‘alice’. The head is made from a piece of driftwood, the eyes are dried paint from the tops of bottles of paint, the antennae are eyeglass frames I found on the road, and heavy fish line with beads from a recycled necklace.
I finally did my hand-painted globe of Mars.
The other side.
‘bone’ assemblage. Pork bone, stamps, glass glob, beads, rhinestones, paint, jewelry, glitter. I can’t throw a good bone away.
‘Pandora’s Box’, assemblage. Wooden box, paint, glitter, resin skull. I painted a moth/butterfly inside the box, on the bottom, instead of the traditional butterfly.
A clearer image of the moth/butterfly/moon painting.
The inside of the lid. Moon painting, resin skull, glitter.
The top of the box, and the front. Circular ouija board image, squished bottle cap found on the road, eye, jewels, paint, glitter, plastic anatomical skeleton wall hanging from the dollar store.
The lid of the box.
The inside of the box, with added plastic snakes and flies.
Moths on the inside left hand side of the lid.
The right hand side.
Moon, moth, on the side of the box.
‘T time’. Assemblage.
‘I see you’ assemblage.
‘Keep the promises that you make’. Assemblage.
‘the light of time’ assemblage. I added a domino and some beads to the bottom. I like it better now.
‘she rides a pale horse’ assemblage, front. Not quite finished, but I like it.
The back of the assemblage. Collage, stenciled paint, stamp, text from a poem, paint. I printed small labels with my name and date on them instead of signing them with a pen.
I’ve started a whole collection of small collages, for a sale this summer with my friend Amy Walsh-Harris. I didn’t think I was going to like this one, but it turned out to be one of my favorites. I’m going to do some more skull collages. Medical illustration, paint, text. 5 x 7” approx.
‘wolverine’ collage. Medical illustration, paint, heart jewel, text. I really like the claws. I’m going to do another one.
The finished collage.
7 small collages. I love doing them.
The original illustration, with red paint on the background, then the image cut out with the ‘flame’ shapes. Heart jewel, star jewel, small playing card, paint, text.
More small collages. 4 x 4”, and 6 x 6”, and a shadowbox, 8 x 8”, and one 3 x 9”collage, and a paperweight.
Three ‘wolverine’ hand collages. 4 x 9” approx.
‘nosferatu’ skull collage.
‘nosferatu’ icon collage. I love this one. I did the collaged illustration part in the computer so it would be on one page, then I painted the red, gold, and black, then I cut it out. Wooden mounted board. It can sit on a shelf. I’m going to put something inside it that no one can see. Way too much fun. I like it so much I think it could be a painting.
The back of the shadow-box icon. It has the poem ‘nosferatu’, and a cherub ornament, and an arm medical illustration. I might add more later.
‘wolverine’, back, flames. Collage on canvas. Printed collaged medical illustrations, paint, jewels.
‘wolverine’, right hand. Collage on canvas.
‘nosferatu’, the vampire’s circus. Collage on canvas. Collaged images, paint, jewels, eye. Imagine if vampires had a circus…
‘nosferatu’, hands up. Collage on canvas.
‘nosferatu’, clown. Collage on canvas.
‘nosferatu’, blue skull clown. Collage on canvas.
‘nosferatu’ batman, flame wings. Not finished. I love the sarong.
and the finished piece.
‘nosferatu’, clown, from ‘the vampire’s circus’ series. Collage on canvas, paint, rhinestones. 6 x 6”
‘nosferatu’ clown, harlequin. Collage on canvas, from the ‘vampire’s circus’ series. I printed the skull on a red background with the coloured circles, then I cut out the shape, then I added gold paint to the edges, then I painted the stripes and diamond patterns onto the paper. The black skull is a negative image of a black and white skull drawing from a medical text book I have. I’ve decided a little less detail is better, although it’s difficult for me to restrain myself.
the finished collage.
‘nosferatu’ clown. Collage on canvas, 6x4”. Collage, paint, rhinestones on canvas. See what I mean about the detail? A bit too much maybe.
‘nosferatu’, clown. Collage on canvas, 6x4”. A little less detail. I need a full frontal skull face now.
Then there’s the ‘nosferatu’ winged images. This one has bird wings. 6x6”.
‘nosferatu’, collage with text. 6x6” I added the word ‘nosferatu’ on top of the printed image, and printed it with a red background.
Then I did bat wings. Printed on a black background, with the flames painted on top of that. Then I cut out the image and glued it onto a painted canvas, then I added the jewels. I’m working on ones with the torso facing forwards, so you can see the front of the body. I like them all.
‘nosferatu’ clown. Collage on canvas. I like the stripes.
‘dancing skeleton’ collage for ‘the vampire’s circus’ series. From ‘the dancing skeleton’ painting I did a few years ago.
‘nosferatu’ clown skull, collage on canvas. I like the eyes. The left pupil is larger, the same as mine.
Three ‘dancing skeleton’ collages.
‘nosferatu’ bat man collage on canvas, blue background.
‘nosferatu’, hand-painted print of a photograph of me at 1 years old. I remember this being taken. For ‘the vampire’s circus’ series. This could be the new title and image for the next book, number four.
‘nosferatu’ clown painting for collage. This one is bigger. I’m going to try printing it to see what it looks like.
The finished collage. Collaged onto a mounted wooden board. I really like this one. I decided to take photos of a plastic skull I have to use as the basis for these collages, instead of using other people’s drawings or photographs. I’ve started three more of these, but I haven’t glued them down yet. They’re kind of addictive. I got a large canvas from the thrift shop that I’m going to do as a painting based on one of these images. This would make a good t-shirt too. So many possibilities, so little time.
‘nosferatu’ venus collage. I did two of these.
This is the second one. I added wings instead of an arm. 10 x 10”. Collage on canvas, paint, jewels. The verse is from the poem ‘but I am not a man’, which I’m still writing.
Just a small pile of some of the paintings I’ve done for the June show. I have a Plan B if things don’t sell. I don’t have a Plan C if they do. Panic? Ha.
‘nosferatu’ clown, dress. I took the photograph of the skull for the background in this collage. I like the way it turned out.
‘nosferatu’ the satanic parsnip hat collage. The hat is from a photograph I took of a weird parsnip I got from the farmer’s market a couple of years ago.
‘the satanic parsnip’ photograph.
‘nosferatu’ antique doll’s head collage.
‘nosferatu’ vampire clown collage. I might do a bit more on this one.
I added a bit more detail to the background, and some rhinestones.
Some of the latest collages. I’m still working on the blue clown in the foreground.
The finished collage.
Printed, painted wing and doll, cut out.
I painted around the doll, then glued the wing and the doll to the painted canvas.
‘the winged doll’ collage, finished. I painted the background and added a heart bead, and some pink rhinestones. I do like a bit of glitter.
The photograph I took of a sculpture at the ROM.
The photo of an eyeless doll I took at an antique mall. So creepy but cool. I also did a painting of this.
Three unfinished collages. I just have to do the backgrounds on them. I like the pink skull burning angel clown collage. I think I need to do some butterfly wings next.
The finished icon. Gold paint, heart jewel and rhinestones.
‘nosferatu’ winged wolverine icon. Collage on canvas.
‘nosferatu’, pink skull angel vampire clown. Collage on canvas, paint, jewels. I like the pink skull. I’m going to do another skull clown. I’m elongating the skull for fun. I usually do 3 or 4 of these at a time, so I can let the paint dry on one, and move on to the next one. I still have a stack of small primed canvases to finish.
I started 3 more collages last night, but I couldn’t stay up to finish them. 2:30 a.m. is late enough, and I still had to do some ironing, and the dishes. I still didn’t get to sleep until after 4. I’ll finish these today.
‘the juggling clown’, paper and paint on canvas, jewels. I like the pants. I left some of the text from the original drawing on the page, and painted around it.
‘butterfly clown skeleton with an elongated skull’, collage on canvas, jewels, butterfly shapes. I like the shape of the skull. Kind of alien-like. I like the blue braided beard too.
3/4 profile skull clown collage. I photographed the skull I have in 3/4 profile. I like the way it looks, especially the weird eyes.