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Photos and line drawing of of Church in Auvers

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These are some of the photos that I took when I stood in front of the church in Auvers. There was a print standing on an easel of the same painting that Van Gogh did as he saw the church in his own eyes. I felt great tenderness and honor standing there in the same spot that he might have stood while he painted.

Church in Auvers

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This is a photo of the painting of the church in Auvers that Van Gogh did in the last days of his life. I stood in front of the church and actually saw what he did when he chose this church as a subject for his painting. It is a beautiful old church in the town of Auvers not far from where he lived. I wondered if he actually went to the church and that is the reason why he painted it. I took close up shots of it from different areas. I thought that I saw birds that looked like crows flying over the steeple. I am working on a painting a translation of the church. I feel so lucky that I got to see this beutiful little church and I will never look at this painting in the same way again.

My Trip to Auvers

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This is a collage that I did from my trip to Auvers where Van Gogh lived and painted in the last 75 days of his life. I took photos from in front the house that he stayed. This is a real photo of a photo of him when he was 19 years old. Even then he had a haunted hungry look in his eyes. I also saw where he and his brother Theo were buried and took a close up of a sunflower that was on their grave as well as one of the paintings of the church that he did in Auvers. I actually stood in front of the church and took a lot of zoomed in photos of it. I am planning on doing a painting from the church photos. I altered the photos and used them in this collage.I will be doing a whole series of paintings collage and pen and ink drawings of my trip to Auvers as a part of this series..

Paris Through My Eyes

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This is a collage that I did from altered photos from my trip to Paris.The image of the abstract face is one of my own paintings. I also used words from a book that I found in a bookstore in Paris.. I did this collage as a special piece from my memory of the magic of Paris.I spent ten wonderful days in an old section of the city across from the Seine River where Monet did his paintings. I am also doing another series of my trip to Giverney, Auvers and Montmartre. The artwork will be a combination of fiberart, collage, drawings and pintings.

Hand Painted Chair

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This is a chair that I altered. The chair already had a canvas back that was a perfect painting surface. . I used one of my own face designs drew it in marker and then painted it in acrylics. The theme was a princess chair for a teenagers room. I did the chair with the idea that everyone deserves to be a princess sometimes. It was auctioned to raise money as a part of a scholarship fundraiser for Proformance Dance.

Fiberart

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This is an example of the fiberart that I am doing for the Fiberart for a Cause in Chicago to help raise money for cancer prevention in April. I used various techniques including mixed media, manipulative fabric, collage, machine embroidery, hand stitching and beading. The themes also vary. Some are my own drawings collage and paintings photo transfered onto fabric hand dyed fabric. I love to try different mixed media and fiber techniques in small pieces of my art.

Joy's Dolls

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This is Tiffany the Christmas fairy who lives in the Forest. She is a beautiful little fairy who has special powers and can turn anything that she touches with her wand into crystals and spreads winter magic that you can only see if you close your eyes. I started with a bendi doll made out of cloth. I then began drawing in the face and doing the hair which was hand sewn one strand at a time. I used different material such as pieced and manipulated fabric and fibers collaged on water soluble stabilizer to make her skirt and she has a blouse made from hand dyed silk.. I made the fairy wings and crown out of fabric stiffened with glue, acrylic paint, shimmery nail polish and glitter. I also created the embellishments out of pieces of water soluble stabilizer and fibers. Her necklace is hand beaded fibers.. I used rainbow dyed ribbon for her shoes.

Watercolor sketch of Spring Moment

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This is the watercolor sketch for the fiber piece that I did Garden in Thread. It was a quick sketch of the feelings and impressions of the colors of the garden on that beautiful spring day.

Joy's photos

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Here I am painting in my back yard last spring. The flowers were absolutely vibrant with color. I did a small watercolor of what I saw. The vibrant colors reminded me of when I went to Paris and saw Giverney and Monet's gardens. Later on I created a fiber piece in thread called Garden in Thread.