Composition In Red: Art from Trash
February 28, 2012 at 8:07 pm | Posted in Considering Ideas, From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: collage, recycling, red, repurpose
Composition in Red, collage by Joan Desmond 2012
This art piece uses only two things: Styrofoam from a take-out container, and cut magazine paper. While the previously posted fish mobile is much about organic shapes, this one is about geometric ones, and numbers. Since these four works will be displayed at a school I kept in mind the various curriculum subjects. Art can be created in any class to enhance learning.
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Echoing Color
May 3, 2010 at 10:30 pm | Posted in From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: collage, color, digital image
Rolling color
2 mixed-media collages – May 2010-Joan Desmond
and enough texture to fall into- from the studio.
Cardboard, cds, old mags, bubble wrap, fruit stickers, wood scraps, cereal boxes…
March 13, 2010 at 1:42 pm | Posted in Considering Ideas, From The Studio | 1 CommentTags: collage, CREATIVITY, Living Green KRV Festival, recycling, upcycling
Collage “Bird Mask” by J. Desmond- recycled mags & other papers
What discarded items are lurking around your house waiting to be transformed into art? By brainstorming, considering possibilities, anything can become a medium for creative expression.
There’s a freedom in it. Recycling and repurposing bypasses the need for purchasing specialized materials: canvas, paint, special paper, and such. Plus it alleviates the oft seen, beginner’s intimidation when confronted with an array of expensive art stuff.
You just plunge in—imagine, conceive, pile up, cut, tear, organize, design, glue, hammer, and lose yourself in the process. Sometimes it’s just about the process, about voicing your expression, and sometimes you will come up with a thing worth keeping.
Starting Wednesday evening, March 17through March 19, 2010, there’s an art exhibit featuring such recycled art at the Odd Fellows Hall,50 Tobias St, Kernville, California.It will highlight a display by local students answering the theme ofHow Do You Green at Home, Work, or School?
This is part of the 2010 Living Green Kern River Valley Festivalto be held March 17 thru 21, 2010 in California.
Art Business
January 26, 2010 at 11:23 am | Posted in Considering Ideas, From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: art business, art studio, collage, self-portrait
self-portrait collage
“Artist/Woman Thinking About Stuff”
That is, art business, paperwork, facts & figures.
There’s color in these hills
January 22, 2010 at 3:34 pm | Posted in From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: collage, color, digital image, red sky in the morning, Sierras
Red sky in the morning,
sailors take warning.
by Joan Desmond
Do you remember the old weather prediction rhyme?
Mornings this winter often arrived under rosy skies, followed by rough weather. We welcome rain here in the high mountain desert. After soaking soil, it brews up as creeks, and gushes into the rivers and lake.
Right now, snow powders the mountains from the latest, ongoing drenching. Smoky white and ominous gray shapes surround me, a line of silver gleams when the sun blinks.
I never tire of looking at these Sierra ranges. Whiteness is but a temporary disguise. Their appearance changes with the seasons’ light and time of day. Underneath the cold mantle, blues, purples, grays, browns, greens, tans await.
How can an artist resist?
Red sky at night,
sailors delight.
Arvin Green Arts Festival
May 16, 2009 at 9:47 am | Posted in Exhibitions, From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: abstraction, Arts Council of Kern, collage, design, paperboard, recycling, repurpose
Recycling…considering the process
An 18″ x 20″ collage created from recycled paperboard which is part of the Arvin Green Arts Festival Juried Show in Arvin, California, May 16-17, 2009.
Autumn Collage
November 12, 2008 at 1:10 pm | Posted in From The Studio | Leave a commentTags: autumn, collage
8th International Miniart Exchange
August 30, 2008 at 10:58 pm | Posted in Exhibitions | Leave a commentTags: collage, International MiniArt Exchange
The 6th International MiniArt Exchange of Porta Alegre, Brazil travelled on to the The Federal University of The Amazon in Manuas, Brazil. It is now the 8th International MiniArt Exchange Exhibit. The works are in the main campus gallery from July 29 – September 12, 2008.
Searching Through The Memories.
My work in the exhibit. A collage based on my charcoal drawing of a figure. I’ve used this figure in a work before, it haunts me.
Thumb! Hand
August 15, 2008 at 2:51 pm | Posted in From The Studio | 1 CommentTags: collage, mixed media, Thumb! Exhibit
My latest Thumb! a mixed-media collage that became part of the exhibit.
Louder Than A Rooster
June 10, 2008 at 11:38 am | Posted in From The Studio, Mask Collage Series | Leave a commentTags: A Fine Masquerade, black, burnt umber, collage, coyote, MASK SERIES, ravens
Erebos Raven
He’s been rocking in the forceful wind, long claws dug into the top of the phone pole across the road for months. Black feathers rise and fall with gusts, and at times glint white in the sun. Daily, his scratchy Caw! Caw! demands Peanuts! Peanuts! Come scatter the morning peanuts! If ignored he moves onto a pine branch above the house for the thunderous effect. At night he beds in those trees.
A smaller female has joined him. They’ll both chase and dive-bomb hawks venturing into this air space as if somehow a red-tail might steal the precious meal. Lately, their biggest competitor is a coyote who also likes goobers. Not as successful as expelling that raider, they boldly swoop and hop around him hopeful of leftovers.
In an opportune moment, the ravens stuff several peanuts in their beaks and fly off to dissect them. Only then is it quiet.
Of course there had to be a raven collage mask!
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