Girl with the Ming Vase

Wendy's Gallery

Wendy’s Multi-Media Creations

Trained as a fashion illustrator and graphic designer, I am still seeking out new techniques to enhance my old skills. I consider this time in my life to be an ongoing art quest where I learn a new technique, make a beautiful mess, and rise again with a new body of work. My current work is mixed media painting.I use acrylic paint, alcohol ink, oil pastels water colors and collage.I splatter, drip and make random scrapes and marks with paint to create my under painting or first layer on canvas. From there I search for familiar natural shapes to emerge. I isolate these shapes from the chaotic background layer to eventually uncover flowers, faces, birds or a coral reef. This “impressionistic” technique reminds me to try to look at the chaos in our lives and find beauty. It also calms me down and helps me to reduce critical over-thinking about what I should and shouldn’t be doing. When I throw some colors of alcohol ink or fluid acrylics down on paper and watch the colors flow into each other it allows me to put things in perspective like in a state of meditation with a paint brush.“One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming” this quote by Morgan Harper Nichols inspired me to place my ladies into a background of flowers.

Prices depend on if the painting is the original, if it’s framed or if it is an archival print. Originals range between $300-$600. Shipping charge is separate. All will need a custom quote through email conversation with Wendy at Riverwoodsart@mac.com

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