Leada Wood: July 2019

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Collage Play by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

I just love paper and have stacks of it. I delight in printing my own with my Gelli plate or using an old book that is ready to recycle and it is always fun to rip and glue my papers into a new design. Here is part of a series that I have made using a limited palette, collage, and a word that came to mind as I created each one.

"Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with the eyes of a child fresh with wonder." -----Joesph Cornell

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

“Paper Pears” by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

It's always fun as an artist figuring out how to push the envelope and bend the rules a little. Being an experimental artist makes it more of a challenge! I belong to the West Texas Watercolor Society and they have their prospectus, that I try as I might to abide by when entering their shows. But it isn't easy...as I paint intuitively and things get stuck on there that are laying around my work area just because it pleases me. Therefore my work doesn't always comply with the rules and I can't enter...but this time I was mindful and hopefully I have met the criteria. Any how...there are no found papers, no printed papers, only ones I have painted and that's the way I came up with the name, Paper Pears.