Orange You Glad For Mod Podge?

It surely beats rubber cement when assembling collage art! (My latest below)

"Meteor(ange) Shower" or "Mistress Citrus: cosmic rind curl unfurls, enveloping girl in swirling spray of seeds & pearls" - 13 3/4 in. x 10 in. on canvas (materials include: vintage & modern magazine ads, randomly sourced internet imagery, metallic gunmetal spray paint, enamel black latex paint, bronze & black patterned washi tape trim, and --yes-- Mod Podge)

Repurposed Materials: Making "Art" From Parts, Brushwork From A Stranger's Brush With Death

Below, my attempts to bring color to the squalor of scattered roadside debris, the remaining evidence of a car crash (or several). Upon encountering the twinkling hard plastic shards I eagerly harvested the broken remnants of smashed taillights and bumper as one might with precious sea glass along the local shoreline. In my case, a beach was replaced with an abandoned property -- highway adjacent -- and the sand involved was the grit and salt distributed by Maine's road crews after an unrelenting winter.

"Rear-end Collision" - 18" x 24" (March 2018)

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"Speleothems, Regmaglypts, Oolitic Black Hermatite, Micaceous Iron Oxide (and Other Formations) Beneath the Drooling Ooze in the Secret Cave of Crystals" - 3' x 4' (March/April 2018)

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"Encrusted, Clustered, Clotted & Mottled Colors of Weeping, Seeping Sequin Splendor" - 18" x 24" (July + August 2018)

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"Meh, Whatever" - 14" x 18" (March 2018 -- no embellishments, but rather a five-minute, unpremeditated "accident" in and of itself, having initially served as a test palette)

Cereal (Seriously)

- A TRIBUTE TO NATIONAL CEREAL DAY -

ABOVE:  a vintage Sesame Street riff of Madonna's 1984 hit "Material Girl"

BELOW:  frenzied collage art by me, using 1940s baking advertisements, my own prints of Lucky Charms cereal and a 30-year-old "My Little Pony" softcover picture book, glazed with Mod Podge

"My Little Scone-ies (and other magically delicious breakfast delights)"

12 in. x 19 in. paper assemblage art on painted canvas with poetry on back & rainbow wash tape along sides, assembled during Eating Awareness Week (February 26-March 4, 2018) and dedicated to Walden Behavioral Care

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Cereal box as morning trough

into which plump knuckles sink

Foraging the marshmallow stuff

that stains a bowl's white milk pink

Confections fill our bellies bloated

rainbow grins are sugarcoated

A General Mills & Hasbrow ploy

is couple hunger with a toy

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A Visual Roundup of Creative Efforts (2017 Edition)

WHAT OCCUPIED MY EYES 

-- AND IDLE HANDS --

THIS YEAR

(FOR ADDITIONAL IMAGES PLEASE VISIT MY INSTAGRAM FEED)

"CAUTION FALLING ICE AND SNOW" (DECEMBER 5, 2016 -- THOMASTON, MAINE)

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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

4' x 3' abstract canvas from March 2015 that I updated with changes to the lower right this September

3' x 2' companion piece

"Chef BoyarDior" -- 31" x 8" mixed media collage (September 2017)

"Oats For Women" -- 16" x 8" mixed-media collage of magazine paper, acrylic house paint, raw oatmeal, and Modge Podge (November 2017 with upper detail added June 2019)

The first and only pencil drawing I've made in at least a decade, based on a photograph of my sister's infant boy, who's marvelous.

Eight o'clock on a New England summer night, from what could have easily been swapped for a landscape by LINDEN FREDERICK, currently my favorite modern painter (whose Night Stories I saw in person on my birthday at CMCA).

The peach-haired and dimpled daughter of a close friend from high school.  She wears a ruffled dress I gave her on the day she turned four years old.  As I type this now her family awaits the birth of a sibling.  I didn't take this picture but I admire the repeated mustard colors!

One of my mother's summer lilies, August 8th (as captured by my iPhone 6s with Instagram filter effects).

My nephew Elias in Owls Head two days before he turned sixteen months old (September 4, 2017).  This was his first beach walk on our American shores.

"Cottony" cobwebs angled off a stone perimeter catch late-day sunlight (September 23, 2017)

Light on our streets arranges itself in the shapes I like to use in abstract art (September 29, 2017)

Deceased common startling encountered on a walk to the boatyard (October 2, 2017)

Marbled veins of pomegranate were revealed upon prying off an "eggnog" batch of floor paint (October 19, 2017) -- Can you spot the projects I used it in?

Sundown on October 16, 2017 at quarter-to-six (Thomaston, Maine)

Brown bat encountered on Halloween Day (!) in our back hallway, promptly relocated to my mother's patio planter.

Dollops & smears of paint on clear plastic with shadows beneath (November 2, 2017)

"WRAITH WHARF" (AUGUST 2, 2017 -- THOMASTON, MAINE)

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--- SAME TIME NEXT YEAR?