Torn Paper Collage by Leada Wood, Artist of Texas

drawing ©Leada Wood

Yes Suzy I think I am hooked! Here is my drawing for another paper painting. Painting with paper or collage is such fun! I have done it off and on for years but now and then I revisit it and get excited all over again doing them. This is a half sheet of watercolor paper with my drawing in sharpie marker, so I can keep up with the lines and drawing when I get started gluing paper down. I will be posting photos of the process, so keep checking back to see my progress.

Summer Games by Leada Wood

Summer Games by Leada Wood©

I thought I would post this one since I have been doing some bench warming at the ball parks lately. My boyz are all in different leagues this season so it keeps life interesting. This watercolor is 22x28 on Arches paper. I tried to depict the action and fun of boys summer games.

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

This is the mom of the young woman who lives in Hungary. This is a mixed media painting, which she has applied different textures to and painted it her favorite color, still a work in progress. I think she maybe a natural!

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

This student is from Dallas and this is her painting from our journey drawing, although not completely finished, I think her painting is looking awesome!

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

This is one of my students from the Mixed Media Workshop at Studio Twenty. I took them on a journey drawing first as most of them were novice painters, then they began to paint. Even though she is not finished with this painting I think she is doing a wonderful job as I think it may be her first painting ever. I hope she continues on with her painting journey!

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

This is the cute couple from Budapest, Hungary, they were adorable and such fun! They were visiting her mom who was also taking the workshop. I am sorry to say I didn't get  photos of their paintings so I am hoping they will email me some photos when they return home to Hungary.

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

Here are two more of my students at the workshop on Saturday. Although some were inexperienced their paintings turned out great! I hope they all keep painting as they were very creative. Two of the ladies were from Dallas, two from Sweetwater and a cute couple from Budapest, Hungary.

Leada Wood's Mixed Media Workshop

Hard at work....having fun!

I have never had such eager, hard working students!  The mixed media workshop on Saturday was such fun, and what a wonderful group to work with! Here are three of my students painting away!

GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME

GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME BY LEADA WOOD©

EVERY THING IS BLOOMING HERE AT DRAGONFLY FARM. MY ZINNAS, HIBICUS, PENTAS, GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, SNAPDRAGONS AND DAISIES. AT LAST SUMMER HAS ARRIVED! THE WEATHER HAS BEEN A LITTLE IRRADIC THIS YEAR BUT MAYBE THINGS WILL SETTLE DOWN. NOW IF WE COULD GET SOME RAIN!


 I HAVE EXCITING NEWS! I WAS JURIED INTO THE ARTISTS OF TEXAS TODAY! WHAT A HONOR TO BE A PART OF SUCH A WONDERFUL GROUP OF ARTISTS.


 I AM ALSO TEACHING A MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP AT STUDIO TWENTY HERE IN COLORADO CITY THIS SATURDAY AND HAVE A COUPLE OF SEATS AVAILABLE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TAKING YOUR ART TO A NEW LEVEL. I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED!

Suzy Powell Workshop at Studio Twenty

Suzy Powell (left) and Kay Smith

Saturday May 14th was a fun day at Leada Wood's Studio Twenty. It's always a good time when a roomful of artists get together to try something new. Suzy Pal is such a good instructor, so generous to share her techniques with all of us, and she is just fun!  If you get the chance to take her workshop you will be in for a treat.

Paper Geisha Beginnings

Paper Geisha by Leada Wood ©

After tracing over my drawing with sharpie marker so I wouldn't lose my design, I glued down the back ground . Then I started ripping tiny pieces of colored paper from magazine pages and gluing them down. Trying to use them like paint, keeping in mind that I had to use different values to build form and shape.

Paper Geisha

Paper Geisha by Leada Wood ©

This is a paper painting collage I completed today in a workshop at Studio Twenty with instructor Suzy Pal. What a wonderful group of ladies! We had such fun, each doing their own subject matter, tearing hundreds of bits of paper from magazine pages and gluing them to their substrates. I collaged mine to watercolor paper and it is 11X15.

Paper Geisha

Work in progress. Today at Leada Wood's Studio Twenty the West Texas Art Guild had a workshop with Suzy Pal. Suzy showed us how to paint with paper or collage, except we tore hundreds of bits of different colored paper from magazines pages and glued the bits to paper or canvas with gloss varnish. I am holding up my geisha that I was working on. We had a wonderful day playing with paper!

My Prodigies

This little Prodigie got first



This little prodigie got second



This little Prodigie got third

And this little Prodigie got honorable mention!

I am so proud of my little art students! They all placed recently at the Children's Art Show in Mitchell County. They worked so hard getting their paintings finished and were so excited. There were five different divisions. The annual Children's Art Show is sponsored by the West Texas Art Guild which is all about promoting art in West Texas and art education. I think there was over 100 enteries this year. Lots of talent!
I know the out of town judge had her work cut out for her . Hope you can go by the library and see it, if you are in the area. It's worth the trip!