A Guided Tour through my latest artist's book, 'Hurly-Burly'

After several online tutorials and many retakes, here it is.

 

Assemblage: 2022, 12 small works

 

2022:  12 Assemblages  Mixed media including canvas, photographs,  

acrylic media, encaustic, oil paint (with cold wax medium), sand, and metal patinas 

on watercolour paper mounted on small canvases. Each work is 150x150mm (6"x6")

As things began to improve in 2022 I felt the need for more colour in my work. I still had plenty of bits and pieces from earlier projects tucked away in my studio, so I decided to use them to make a series of small assemblages. Thematically they would relate to my books.

Planning layouts on top of the underpaintings on the sheet of watercolour paper

                           

Much further on: I decided to make them round on square canvases

I developed each work with wiped back layers of oil paint mixed with CWM and impasto medium, and finally with oil glazes.