My process involves reconditioning and hand-sculpting unheated silver flatware which I then craft together with glass beads, antique bottles, crystals & artifacts using stainless steel cable & crimps.
I am a mixed media artist who works in acrylic, graphite, pastel, & collage. My pieces contain a lot of texture, unique mark making & colors galore…often described as exuberant, joyful & unguarded.
Acrylic paintings using pallet knives and brushes. They are highly textured w/glass, modeling paste, & other found items on gallery wrapped canvas and range from whimsical to landscape to abstract.
Lesa and Debbie scour thrift stores and estate sales for vintage & costume jewelry and frames. The result is unique, one-of-a-kind, up-cycled art pieces that range from traditional to whimsical.
Painting with acrylic, I use silk as my canvas because it is translucent and absorbs pigment with a subtle iridescence. Visible through the silk are mono print textures I create with dyes & screens.
Using epoxy resin & opaque/transparent acrylic paint I carefully layer each layer to make my pieces come alive. I compare this to 3D printing only with a paint brush & resin! Final result is lifelike!
I am a mosaic and fiber artist in Chicago, Illinois. My work is handmade by me and ranges from hangable wall art to jewelry and home goods. I primarily work with glass, stone, cotton, and wool.
Substrates range from sheet music & book pages, ledgers to board. Using a variety of mediums including acrylic, pencil, pastels & fiber I layer to create a cohesive piece with texture, feeling & mood.
I am a linocut printmaker who also works with watercolor, colored pencil, markers, and pens. Inspired by nature, I tend to work intuitively, allowing a piece to evolve. I also explore oil painting.