"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often." - Mae West
Deep Rich blues and turquoise colors surround photos I took of a pinup girl painted on the side of a WWII fighter plane.
The Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho is a beautiful tribute to our American Veterans.
Painted with many layers of acrylic, graphite, oil pastel, ink pencil and copies of my b&w photos.
Mounted to a black cradle board. 18"x18"x.75" Mixed Media Collage on Cradle Board/SOLD
This painting is SOLD/commissions are welcome. View more of my work at http://tracylupanow.com
"The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation,
melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man." - William Beebe This highly textural mixed media painting, with its soft muted colors, seems to be shrouded in a mist of obscurity.
Painted with many layers of acrylic, charcoal pencil, ink stick, stencils and found papers.
On a chunky 2" deep wood cradle board 12"x12"x2: Mixed Media Collage on Cradled Board $155 Available HERE
“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. ... You touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.” - N. Scott Momaday The recent loss of my younger brother has left me heartbroken and filled with a crushingly heavy sadness.
I chose to name this painting Sacred Ground because it helps me to believe his body was laid to rest in a sacred place
and his beautiful loving spirit was set free to soar.
Painted with many layers of acrylic ,graphite, ink pencil, and collaged with found papers and copies of my b&w photos.
Mounted in a black mat ready to frame.
18"x18" Mixed Media Abstract Landscape on Watercolor Paper/ SOLD Commissions are welcome.
"Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart.
The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air.
I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there." - Louis Armstrong Fun little abstract painting of a swampy overgrown Louisiana bayou!
Painted with acrylic, charcoal pencil and ink pencil
Mounted in a white mat ready to frame.
10"x10" Mixed Media Abstract on Watercolor Paper $65 Available HERE
" I feel the earth move under my feet...." - Carole King The energy of the green agitated marks in this painting reminded me of the lines produced by a seismograph during an earthquake.
I lived in southern California for many years and have experienced quite a few earthquakes.
Those fearful memories are evident in this painting.
Painted with acrylic, oil pastel, ink pencil, graphite, stencils and mesh tissue paper.
Mounted to a black cradle board.
18"x18"x.75" Mixed Media and Collage on Watercolor Paper, Mounted to a black cradle board.
"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven" - Martin Luther King Jr. The energy and movement in this painting is fierce.
Like a storm on the ocean or a storm in your heart.
Painted with Acrylic, oil pastel, ink pencil, graphite, charcoal, copies of my b&w photos and tissue paper.
Mounted to a black cradle board.
16"x16"x.75" Mixed Media and Collage on Watercolor Paper, Mounted to a black cradle board.
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Small mixed media painting using layers of acrylic paint, ink pencil and found papers. Mounted to a black cradle board.
10"x10"x .75" Mixed Media Landscape on Watercolor Paper, Mounted to a Cradled Board SOLD/Commissions welcome.
FRESH OFF THE EASEL "Train yourself to remain calm under all circumstances.
Only in a state of tranquility can we find the way out of our predicaments." - Jerry Corsten Soft colors and a balanced composition give a sense of calm to this mixed media abstract painting!
Painted with many layers of acrylic, ink sticks and collage with found papers.
On a wood cradled board. 12"x12"x.75 Mixed Media Landscape on a Cradled Wood Panel $155 Click HERE to purchase.
FRESH OFF THE EASEL "I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us
and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure
are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom.
I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil." - Hugo von Hofmannsthal The longer one looks at this painting the more it reveals itself to the viewer. Hidden beneath the tissue thin layers of monoprinted collage elements you will find writing, scribbles, and interesting symbols that seem to have an old story to tell!
Painted with many layers of acrylic,charcoal pencil, ink sticks, monoprints and found papers.
On a wood cradled board
20"x20"x.75 Mixed Media Collage on a Cradled Wood Panel $425 Click HERE to purchase.
FRESH OFF THE EASEL "As for the subject matter in my painting...
It is very often an incidental thing in the background,
elusive and unclear, that really stirred me." -William Baziotes Lots of texture and movement in this mixed media abstract painting!
Painted with many layers of acrylic, ink sticks and collage with found papers.
On a wood cradled board12"x12"x .75" Mixed Media Collage on Wood Cradled Board
"No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness.
Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances." - Paramahansa Yogananda Bold, bright and colorful mixed media abstract painting!
Painted with many layers of acrylic, ink sticks and collage with found papers.
On a wood cradled board
12"x12"x .75" Mixed Media Collage on Wood Cradled Board
"When I'm no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg." - Snoop Dogg A kaleidoscope of bright rainbow colors and interesting shapes led me to this playful and entertaining mixed media painting!
Painted with many layers of acrylic, charcoal pencil, ink stick, and found papers.
On a wood cradle board
Mixed Media and Collage on Cradled Board/SOLD
"Perpetual peace is only found in the graveyard" - Immanuel Kant To me a cemetery is a beautiful and peaceful place to wander. The painting reminds me of of visiting a cemetery at night.
Some of the photos I used in this painting were taken at multiple cemeteries in New Orleans.
There is also a photo I took of a deer who lives at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
Can you find him?
This painting has many layers of acrylic, oil pastel, ink pencil and copies of my black and white photos.
24"x24"x.75" Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper, Mounted to a black cradle board.
