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| Year Of The Dragon by Leada Wood© I just can't get enough of those Geisha, I love to paint them, and especially like to put them into a mixed media painting. I used an altered background technique and then glazed over that. Next I added some collage and drew my Geisha on, then painted and collaged some more until I thought it was finished. But nooooo...I decided since it was the year of the dragon and had a stamp and coin I would add those as well to the painting. Thus the name of my painting! This is a miniature mixed media painting only 5"x7". |
Showing posts with label oriental painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oriental painting. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Year Of The Dragon by Leada Wood©
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Happiness by Leada Wood ©
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| Happiness by Leada Wood© Aww happiness is decorating the cover of a new sketchbook. Inside will be all kinds of possibilities for new paintings...ideas...designs. You just never know what you will come up with until you start playing around in "the book". I am not one to have a plain cover on MY sketchbook...I want it to beckon me to pick it up and spend time with it. |
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Gossip Girls by Leada Wood, Artist of Texas
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| Gossip Girls by Leada Wood© Well it's been a tedious process but I am finally through with this painting. No paint was used only paper, it is 14x22 on Arches paper. Collage is very freeing, fun and a little addictive! I have been on an Asian theme lately but I must leave it for now so that I can get ready for upcoming shows. I decided to name this one Gossip Girls as they look as if they are tuned in to some intense conversation. What do you think? |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Torn Paper Collage by Leada Wood, Artist of Texas
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| Gossip Geishas by Leada Wood © 20011 I finally came up with a name, thanks to my friend Linda. I don't know if you watched Gossip Girls on tv but I did and thought Gossip Geishas was a good name for this painting. I had considered the Matchmaker but decided I liked Gossip Geishas better. What do you think? I used paper that I had painted, on the left Geisha for a change of pace, still a lot to do on this painting. It would have been much easier to paint this painting with watercolor, but it is kind of like a puzzle to get all the right paper in the right places and make it look like a painting. Collage has been around for centuries, I did a reseach paper in collage on Kurt Schwitters, a famous German collage artist, which began my facination with collage that continues to this day. I am making progress so keep checking back to see how I am coming! Thanks for looking! |
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Torn Paper Collage by Leada Wood, Artist of Texas
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| by Leada Wood ©2011 These two geishas are coming along, I am still tearing paper and gluing it down, trying to add line, value and shape as I go. They are on 1/2 sheet of watercolor paper and I think it would have been much easier if I had enlarged them to a full sheet. The detail and shadows in the face are very tedious as her face is small, but I always accept a challenge and usually overcome it! Still a way to go but progress is being made....I will keep you posted! |
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Paper Geisha Beginnings
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| 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. |
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Paper Geisha
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| Paper Geisha by Leada Wood © |
Paper Geisha
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