Mixed Media Collage

This is the latest mixed media piece I'm working on I've titled it Periphery and its 8"x10".

Im trying to reduce the amount of cut images from the media and incorporating more of my own mark making and drawing into these pieces. Im utilizing watercolor, variety of numbered pencils, ink pens and a bit of acrylic paint.

I'm using paper from old books and transparent paper i like the different shades of browns that these  papers give. 

Mixed Media piece

This piece titled Outpost is 16" x13" and utilizes a variety of papers from old books.

I sketched out the skull, lotus, circles and lettering then came in with acrylic paints, pens and ink.

layered in some transparencies over the skull and a few images cut from books like the silhouetted people, a hand and moon. 

Incantation Mixed Media Collage

Incantation 5" x7" mixed media collage

mixed media collages

A few new collages and assemblage sculpture

I finished two new hand cut collages and on one of them I utilized a photo editing tool for the frame. I also am in the middle of a work in progress assemblage sculpture that I'm trying to wrap up but am at a standstill for the time being. i feel like i need to add a backdrop to the sculpture, something to add behind the couple holding the orb!

This one is titled Exiles Dirge and is 3" x5"

This one is titled Disembodied Voices and is 12" x 6"

The sculpture is 3 feet wide by 3 feet tall and has a variety of materials that make up the assemblage. wood, metal, plexiglass, an old clock body, 2 collages.  Ive titled it - Colonize from Within.

TIERNAN.B " ON ME "

one of my son's songs.

Tiernan and his friend Tylers new song - Ty Arena$ ft JuxBoy - Los Angeles (Official Video)

My son Tiernan and his friend Tyler new video. They wrote recorded and produced their latest song.

"Los Angeles" - @tylerarenas
ft. @tiernanbjux
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@giantwetrust

New Photomontages 2017

These three photomontages are 11"x14" and hand cut  and penciled in details

This one is titled "Collapsing into the Void"

                                             This one is titled " Fell on Dark Days"

                                   This one is titled "The Difficult Crossing"

new photomontages December 2016

A few new photomontages with penciled in details. They are all 11" x 14"

this I titled Incantations and is made up of 11 separate pieces.

This one I Titled  "PSSST.....The Dali Lama wants you to wake up"

made up from 9 separate pieces.

No title but added a quote from Thich Nat Hanh

"Its not impermanence that that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer wanting things to be permanent when they are not"

New sculpture/assemblage Search for Your Invisible Heart

Unveiling another sculpture of mine this one is 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide.  Still not done, I need to paint some text and symbols on the piece as well as work out the center of it.

I've titled it Search For Your Invisible Heart.

I used a variety of different material in this one, layered plexiglass, steel, and found objects to my collages and my photography. A lot of cutting using the dremel and jigsaw. Cutting the plexiglass was pretty easy with the jigsaw once I discovered to secure a sheet of plywood under the plexiglass and a use a blade with a lot of teeth! my last attempt at cutting plexiglass on the table saw resulted in 20 stitches in my forearm when the plexiglass kicked back and gashed me! not good ( that was years ago).

I'm starting to figure out how to secure the different materials together, for instance glass and metal to wood then paper on top of it and clear acetate on top of that and making it look like they belong together.  

     

    I'm starting to figure out how to secure the different materials together, for instance glass and metal to wood then paper on top of it and clear acetate on top of that and making it look like they belong together.