Another original repainted to become a new original

Influenced by Piet Mondrian

All Together Now - Six Monoprints - Three with Newly Added Embellishments

Three Original Monoprints (Top left, Top right and Bottom left)

Three Monoprints (two ghost prints and one offset print), with mixed media added (ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel).  Bottom run part of an on going Strange Journey series

Strange Journey Monoprints - Second KALA class results are in!

Top:  Offset print of the 2nd printing of my etched flower, without the concrete truck or stars (ie printed off of the original print)
Middle:  The Ghost print of the top image (ie 2nd print from the original plate)
Bottom:  Original 1st printing of my etched flower with stars (one fell off) and concrete truck.  Part of my in process 'Strange Journey' series of mixed media images.

Strange Journey: Trip to Chicago

Working on a new series of Strange Journey mixed media collages.  Life is a strange journey, and now with the benefit of age, I've seen, experienced and enjoyed most of it.

In this collage, I'm remembering a trip taken to Chicago, Illinois and Rochester, Indiana with my then 93 year old father E.A. Autrey.  Two of his many self portraits are in the car.  Another metaphor for the ups and downs of life, for me, is the mobile and/or balance, made famous by Alexander Calder and, to come extent, Paul Klee.  In my mobile, one can find the cows jumping over a blue moon, a star ball, some random insects, flowers and stars.  There are also some hearts and a photo of me by E.A. Autrey, which I later doctored up.  I'm experimenting with paper die cuts, combined with a variety of other papers which is a lot of fun.    Who knows where this journey will take me next!