Paper Geisha



Paper Geisha by Leada Wood © All Rights Reserved

We had such fun at Studio Twenty today with Suzy Pal and a great group of ladies. We ripped and tore paper from magazines and glued all day! I stayed after class and finished my geisha because I could not wait to see her finished! Now I am waiting on all the others to see how theirs turn out...it is very exciting to see them take shape. Using only paper, no paint, we used the papers to add value, texture, shape and color. What fun! and it might be addictive! Ok Kay get busy and get yours done...I'm waiting to see it!



Rising Sun

Rising Suns by Leada Wood (c) 2010 All Rights Reserved

Here is one of my 5X7 paintings that is in the traveling 5x7 Show. The show started at the Jones Art House in Austin and will have an opening in Dallas, Tx. August 27th at the Dunn and Brown Contemporary Gallery.  It is a mixed media collage with hand painted papers on mat board with watercolors. It is quiet a challenge making a collage in such a small space, but I always enjoy a challenge!

"COSMIC ENERGY'

This is another one of my collages going to Kerrville Art Center.  It is 9x11, watercolor on Arches paper.  I painted different kinds of thin papers and stamped on them with my hand made stamps, added texture here and there, layered the papers and added the Japanese symbol for energy. I then used some objects I had in my treasure trove and embelished  it until it made me smile!

Thanks, Tom Lynch!!!

Yay!!!

Thank you, I love you Tom Lynch, for jurying Asian Persimmons into the Society of Watercolor Artists in Ft. Worth upcoming show. This acceptance is number 5 and is the final one for signature status with this group. Just last month I learned that I made sig status with WAS-H in Houston with Pastry Chef.

Here is my Asian piece, 15x22. I used the large cement Oriental figure you've seen at my house, real Asian persimmons from Rose Chau, my nail lady, an ornate Indian sewn pillow cover on which to set the fruit. It was morning sun backlit for the photo.