Fine art paintings, drawings, and sculpture using handmade or commercial paper as the surface.
Flat + Incised Plants and Animals
Abstract paintings of plants and animals on commercial paper with incised handmade paper.

Style History: In 1995, while I was working on my flat paintings, I began an exciting exploration - the making and manipulation of handmade paper. I decided to incise lines and texture into small hand-made paper pieces. My incising experiments were unplanned and abstract at this time. Once the first mark was made into the paper, my subconscience would take over and the process of design would begin. As each work developed, the design would become more intuitive and less unpredictable. Then in 1998, after doing many incising experiments, I decided to adhere the incised paper abstracts pieces to flat commercial paper. I did this because I liked the contrast between the flat paper and the incised paper.

Sometimes I used a collage-like technique to attach other materials like string, seaweed, rock, metal, etc. to the artwork. The paint mediums I use encompassed all types; acrylic, graphite, gouache, ink, oil paint, pastel, pencil and watercolor. Examples of this style can be seen in the works “Tattoo Man” and “Blast Off”. The incising experiments would become the foundation for all my handmade paper artwork going forward.
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Butterfly
ID# 522
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Walking The Dog
ID# 519
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Frog
ID# 515
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