Below are new collages from past paintings - mostly watercolors and a few acrylics, some originated from as far back as the 90's! - many of them were never finished until I decided to renew them through collage.  I cut them up, reworked them and added tissue paper, ink and oil pastel. 

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“Carole Sue’s Tree”

Watercolor, Tissue, Oil Pastel

“Apple”
Acrylic, Oil Pastel

“A Pair”

Watercolor, Acrylic, Collage

“Orange Mountain”

Acrylic, Collage, 

“Corpus Collosum”

Watercolor, Acrylic, Collage

“Pink Sunset”

Watercolor, Black Pen, Collage 

“Our Tree”

Black Pen drawing

Sun/Birds Watercolor



 "Happy Bird"
Multi-Media

And below, a preview of some of my "Mad Men" inspired mid-century modern art pieces!  I can't wait to finish my "Sad Clown."

Below are some of the crafts I have been working on for an upcoming show.  The emphasis is reuse! I am always doing stuff like this, evidenced by our cluttered kitchen table...

A necklace made entirely out of found objects and jars re-worked to be re-used and more fun!

A button choker . . .

My kiddo goes through t-shirts like... (paper towels..?)  I finally found some ways to reuses them - cut up, they become a new kind of adornment!