Freya, SideStreet Arts - Original Art

Freya, 11" x 14" Mixed Media (oil, cold wax, graphite, charcoal, pastel) on Mixed Media Paper, mounted to 1.5" cradled panel. Unframed. The artwork is hanging at Sidestreet Arts, Portland, OR. 

Adventures in Mixed Media continue. A goal of 2024 was to work on my "mark-making". These are marks inherent to me and my hand, generated from various tools and mediums. A trip to the hardware store becomes an artist's creative outlet when objects such as a large putty knife or shower scrubber with a long handle become your mode of applying paint. These paintings create my backgrounds with energy and intention. Then I freehand draw the horse into the image into a new dynamic way.  The abstraction from the marked painting on the paper creates movement, texture and spontaneity.