I consider these pieces a transition from traditional painting to where I am working now with the glass over paintings.
MOOSE ON SACRED GROUND
heavily encrusted painting collage with glass beads and applied pieces of old paintings, as well as pieces of colored glass
VIOLINIST oil with applied pieces of Italian smalti.
BABUSHKA - glass and smalti collage over oil on board
ABSTRACTION
painting heavily textured with applied glass
CAVE OF THE SYBIL
painting with mixed media
ABSTRACT: 1812
oil with pottery shards, string and pieces of cloth collage
SPRING IN LAKE OSWEGO
oil with glass pieces. This is the first piece I did adding glass to a painting almost completed.
THE BREAKFAST ROOM
oil with pieces saved from a scraped off painting. My first "encrusted" painting. Note that I have reworked this composition in my mosaics.