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This small collage served as a demonstration piece this past weekend at the workshop, it would look nice framed in natural wood and displayed in the kitchen! With the holidays are right around the corner, what better gift than something handmade?

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DVD of Collage Process

This DVD is a creative overview from start to finish of my paper painting process. I cover painting your own collage papers, sketching, underpainting and tips and tricks for collage application. This comprehensive video is 30 minutes and will play in your PC/MAC or TV DVD player.

Collage Process DVD
Plays on PC or TV formatted for North American viewing: NTSC
$10 plus $3 shipping and handling in the US
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At Work In The Studio

My husband took some really nice photos of me at work in my studio last week. We submitted to Florida International Magazine's Art and Design Issue. They are looking to feature FL artists at work in their studios. I won't know until early November whether or not I have been chosen to be included in this fabulous publication. Cross your fingers for me!

I thought you might be interested to see my work space, those of you who follow my collage art. It's always helpful to put things in context. You can see my clear bins of hand-painted papers behind me on my taboret, and I always work standing at the easel, rather than sitting at a table or desk.

Finch Postcard Set Now Available

Finch Postcard Set

6" x 4" (15.3cm x 10.2cm)
printed on paper on
$5 plus $2.95 shipping and handling in the US

New Work

A Few Last Birds

top: Winter Tufted Titmouse, 9x12 | middle: European Robin, 12 x 9 | bottom: Florida Scrub Jay 12x9

I am going to be taking a break from birds. I've decided to do some small fruit pieces next, 8x8. And then on to 20x24 for more detailed work. I feel like I have done all the birds I can handle for a while, time to mix it up.

Here are the last couple of birds for a while, these were produced late last night and into the wee hours of this morning.

Fresh Fruit

Mango and Banana

I have a collector who purchased three fruits from me some years back. He recently contacted me and said he "needed more fruits!" I am posting here to show him that his fruits are finished, and I hope that they are to his liking. My style has grown and changed since creating the original fruits and I hope that this new bounty will blend well with the others.

No pressure Jaime! if you don't like them, I'll keep them.... they are "growing on me"

A Very Special Commission

Part Five: Finished!

For Michael | 12x10 | collage on wood panel

Here is the finished piece. This very special commission is of a Blue Bunting, which is a bird that has special meaning to the woman who asked me to create this collage. She asked me to create this Paper Painting for her sister, who had lost her only son, Michael. You can see that I worked his name very subtly into the tree just above the bird where they intersect. If you zoom in on the church, you will also see that the text that creates the white, is about blue birds.

The drippy painted effect at the bottom is from the under-painting -- in the end, I decided that I wanted to let that show through. At the bottom and the very top, there are small areas of wood that are exposed to show the viewer what's underneath, I really like showing the color and the texture of the birch wood panel. Around the tree and it's branches are pencil lines that I have been experimenting with leaving in the finished work.

The DVD overview of the process that I am working on, actually highlights this piece. I have gotten so much positive response about the video that I am considering adding a voice over to it (the first version will simply be set to music for galleries to play in the background) that will in fact make it instructional. The video portion covers the process from start to finish, I just need to describe, in detail, what I am doing along the way. With an added voice over, this video would offer step-by-step instruction on my collage process. I hope to add this to the project and make it available for purchase in the next several weeks!