Bride and Groom

"Bride" and "Groom" are the titles of my two newest collage/mixed media pieces.

My son and his bride got married two months ago and I finished these to get out in the mail for their wedding gift.

Bride and Groom are collaged on wood. I drew these cute little illustrations in a drawing pad, and then colored them with prisma colored pencils, cut them out and gel mediumed them to the wood. There is where I began to paint them with acrylic golden paints and many mixed materials for the backgrounds including inks, papers, stamps...

If you have any questions about methods, please do write!

The Rose

Have you ever looked at the color and shading in a rose? The intricate details of each petal. A rose seemed to have been made just for us to stop, look and smell.

I have a beautiful rose bush that is the wild type growing up the side of my front steps. I am letting it go. It is dropping off its beautiful petals on my stairs and driveway as though it is preparing to let a bride walk down the aisle. It is dropping it's petals as though a bride would lay petals out on her bed for her groom.

I am interested in making rose water and am going to google it. I'll let you know if it works.