And then these turned themselves red!

There is a bit more evidence of the journal pages in this group. The mark making, the exposure of some of the collaged imagery from the printed journal pages. It is difficult to transfer something which is beautiful small and have the same success with the same imagery in a large format. I need to have larger hands and tools for bigger mark making to achieve the same ratio. I'll keep trying.....These are not even that big!

The red in this work is actually a permanent marker, rich, rich, rich in hue, yet translucent! And stinky!

So here they are, heavy paper, printed versions of the journal pages completed obscured. Wax, plaster, encaustic gesso rolled over the paint. How do you like the format

The small yellows are on panels and the above pieces are on paper. That was the plan. Some of my struggle is with format, squares or rectangles, long or short, horizontal or vertical? The journal pages are 3.5x5 vertical, there is something about that narrow vertical shape. Two squares on top of each other also offers this ratio. Let's see

hellohellohellohellohello.....I think I like this one. In this size or maybe this size or maybe times, yes , this is much better.

Welcome yellow, so way not mellow! Below are some new pieces based on the journal experiments I have been messing with all term. First, my mentor, Jill Slosberg-Ackerman, loved those little books and wondered why my paintings were so disparate. She suggested I just work on the books for a bit, which I did. I disassembled one and created the 36x48 painting which is somewhere below...way down. Maybe that was a mistake, I don't really know. My next assignment was to scan and print out a few pages from the journal and use those as the basis for a new body. Which I did. What you see here is the continuing evolution of those pages. I am beginning to feel alright about them.