Welcome to the new and improved versions of these paintings.  I created them last year with the intention that they would be sold with a mission style table easel.  I’m going to keep the easels to assist with future library art shows and/or to display my work if I ever have another opportunity for an indoor art sale like the one I participated in at that Jamesville, New York whiskey bar.

They look so much better in these fabulous frames.  I am in love with them!  They are encaustic & collage targets, 5″ x 7″ hardboard mounted on 8″ x 10″ chalkboard.

I reworked some of them.  I added gold enamel.  I changed out collage materials.  I used my fingers to smudge in metallic cold waxes.

I thought they were done before, but once they were in the frames, I felt like they could be elevated via these tweaks.

The dream is to sell them as a group.  Someone could install them on a wall as one giant piece or maybe they could place them on a long hallway wall in a business office.

I think this is the vision I have for all of my artwork.  I create series of paintings with the intention that they be introduced to the world together as a unit, as a presentation much like a fashion show reveals a seasonal collection of clothing.  I love this idea, that an idea expands to however many paintings brings it to fruition.

It’s always at least a dozen paintings of the same dimensions.  In this case, there are two dozen.