My painting “Poured Yupo Peony”
is included in the book AcrylicWorks 2: Radical Breakthroughs. They even used it in an email promo, which I thought was really cool and unexpected. My California friend, Chris Beck, sent me an email saying she had seen it online, so I double checked my emails on my computer (not my phone where those little tiny photos require magnifying glasses!).
The painting was created by pouring and dripping fluid acrylics on Yupo using taping to separate the layers. I used blue painter's tape so it wouldn't stick to the acrylics when I pulled it off, and so that some of the colors would run underneath to create the fluted edges of some of the petals. Definitely not my usual support, nor technique, but that's what this painting was all about - getting out of the norm and trying something new.
In addition, another of my paintings
is a Finalist in The Artist’s Magazine Over 60 Competition, with my name listed in the March magazine, but no photo. It's one you have seen here on the blog multiple times.