Canning Art Awards 2012

I have entered two artworks into this upcoming exhibition, completed in October last year.  Come along and check out this exhibition, here's the details below:

Canning Art Awards 2012

Friday 8th June

to 

Sunday 17 June 2012

10am - 4pm

at

Canning Town Hall

Albany Highway

Cannington

The Lighthouse, Mixed Media
Carolyn McIntosh 2011

The Field, Acrylic
Carolyn McIntosh 2011

Invitation to Mosman Park Art Awards 2012

Invitation
Mosman Park Art Awards 2012

Camelot

16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park

Sun 20 May til Wed 23 May, noon – 5pm 

AND Thursday 24 May, noon – 6pm

Best Seat in Town
Mixed media (fabric, paper, balsa wood, acrylic paint) 
by Carolyn McIntosh 2012
Price $550

My mixed media artwork was accepted, yippee, I'm very happy!!! 

Artwork using scrap-booking & fabric remnants

I found a whole bunch of scrap-booking remnant papers the other week and thought it might be fun to use them as a texture in an artwork. I decided that they would make an excellent depiction of bushes in a forest. 

On a short holiday with my husband in January this year we visited Big Brook Dam in Pemberton, Western Australia.  The photo you see below was taken on a short walk trail adjacent to Big Brook Dam and it's my initial reference point for this mixed media work. 

Walk trail alongside Big Brook Dam, Pemberton, Western Australia

Yes, my artistic depiction in the work in progress below does look a bit different to the photo. Art for me is about playing with materials, applying paint expressively and not about being a master at copying. 

New work in progress

The paper remnants that I've glued to the canvas to make the background in this work originally appears to have been used to make cutout/stamped shapes for scrap-booking. Closer inspection of the background you will see an assortment of shapes star, feet, people, flower shapes.  The path is an old towel, the tree trunks are curtain gathering tape that I found in my sewing box, the foreground is torn up paper doilies.   The sky is a curtain/upholstery fabric remnant: compliments of Neil Elliott's collection that he gathered and shared from REmida, my idea of heaven! (REmida is a recycling warehouse in West Perth that I can't wait to go and forage around in).  

I'm not sure how the paint will go over the top of these textures, I kinda like it as a collage. There's always the fear that the paint won't grip to the textures that I've experimented with and that it won't work out. I will courageously conquer my fear and apply some paint to this work, hmmm, well, maybe this week after a coat of sealer and perhaps a coat of gesso.  I'm enjoying it just the way it is for now, it's the best time when I am in the act of creating - the hopeful moment when the work has so much potential! I like to just stare at it forever and wonder.  I hope at some point I'll shall stop staring at it as it is, start painting and show you the completed work soon.  Hopefully it will turn out great and won't need to be recycled :-)