JO REIMER: Dwelling

Monday, April 04, 2011

Dwelling

1819 House with Green Roof

5x7

Another in my Dwelling series of daily collages, this one featuring a roof composed with a piece of green stenciled paper where I used a paper doily as the resist and sprayed with green paint. There are lots of painted papers combined to create this house with it's strange setting. These are such fun to do and go together very quickly, now that I have more ideas of how to assemble the papers.

6 comments:

Anonymous3:56 AM PDT
I love all the bold color and life in this piece! It really speaks to me.
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Dreamcicle Journeys7:23 AM PDT
Your dwelling series is one of my favorites. The textures and colors really sing in this collage.
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Bren Graham Thebeau4:01 PM PDT
a house for Spring with all those greens :-)
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Marge Malwitz4:22 PM PDT
I missed a bunch of these-was crazy busy here last wk with all the art friends. Love the bright pinks and greens and the architecture-one of my favorite image sources for design inspiration - too.
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Anonymous8:37 PM PDT
Really lovely integration of colors and textures! Paula Dubill
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.