"Soar" by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

"Soar" Copyright 2015 Leada Wood

"Dream" Copyright 2015 Leada Wood

I am so embarrassed that I have not posted on our blog for a while...isn't it funny how time slips away as the song by Willie says.

I have been playing around with my paints, collage papers and using some of those supplies I have stashed away!  I enjoy using words and phrases in my mixed media art, pushing and pulling the paint until it becomes a veil of color and adding lots of layers. I also delight in the dreamy colors that appear. Playtime is always good in the studio, it helps me to grow as an artist...try things I wouldn't otherwise dare. Creativity takes courage and as Pablo says " inspiration exists but it must find you working"

Celestial Jesus

This was drawn in a small chapel in Peru while I was sitting at the feet looking up at this beautiful carving of Jesus. I started this in a Douglas Walton Workshop and finished it at home. I used latex paint and did many drippings and pourings and finished it with watercolor. Full size. 22 x 30.

Walton Watermedia Workshop Experience

Mixed Media by Leada Wood ©

This is another Walton Experience. I put random texure down with different objects all over the paper and let it dry. We then chose three colors and placed them on wet paper and let that dry. We then had to paint negatively around our What with a dark rich color to make our What (focal Point) stand out. I left some of my underpainting textures travel around the painting and then tucked and found more shapes and textures until I was tuckered out and called it finished!