Painting in Italy

Home from Italy! I had a fantastic time in Tuscany and Umbria. What a beautiful country! Everywhere is a painting waiting to be painted. I stayed in a villa in the country side. We did collage art and took day trips to beautiful places.

This small painting is from my small watercolor art journal. I sat outside of the "agriturismo" resort villa we stayed in and painted this. It's a beautiful valley with a farm. This is looking into Tuscany. This is also the view I had from my room.

Fabric and paper collage

Home Sweet Home

This is a fabric and paper collage. I am starting to think about which papers I will bring with me to Italy for my collage trip with Elizabeth St. Hilare. She uses paper and will supply all of our supplies needed, but she did say to bring paper that we would like to incorporate into out work while in Italy. 

This collage above uses both fabric and paper. I also used paint. Its a real mixed media piece. It's part of a children's board book that I altered.