...or borrow or copy, whatever you want to call it. I look through my art stuff and find an artist whose work intrigues me and I'll try something similar. Most of them are dead anyway.
Alexander Calder is known for his mobiles but he went into a gouache stage (gouache is a type of opaque watercolor) and I really like the results. So I did a nice, bright, happy piece ala Calder. It's pretty big, 22" by 30" or so.
"Little Blue Leaf"
Mixed media, oil pastel crayons, gouache and acrylics
The second is a take off on Serge Poliakoff, a Russian painter of the 20th century. It's called "Some County in Iowa".
Mixed media, oil pastel crayons, gouache on matboard, 15" x 18"
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