Paint, Paper and Paste by Amarie Hill
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| There's no Place like home | The Dog's House | Hickity, Pickety My Blue Hen |
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Sunday in the Garden with Marvin  |
Doesn't your cat have pink stripes? |
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| Sisters (this one will be offered for sale, at US$55) |
We all have Guardian Angels | Boys will be Boys |
for the 12th International Collage Exhibition/Exchange which will show on this site next month.
Although she made them for the exchange she is happy to sell any of them for $55 each & make others for the exchange.
| The Art of Play Paint, Paper and Paste I had been working for several weeks non-stop on a project for a CD cover. My long-time friend asked that I submit possibilities for the CD cover. One of the composers, alive and well living in New York suggested an American flag theme. After thirteen pieces of paintings and collages with flags and red, white and blue I just needed to play! I also needed a gift for my friends’ wife. It only seemed fair – he was getting 13 pieces I could at least paint her a gift! The trick was I needed it done within the day and it had to be fun! I decided to play…I painted an 8 x 10 canvas various shades of blue with touches of white using a checkerboard stencil. I had an idea…I had recently been cleaning out old quilt books and came across some that had simple appliqué or stitchery patterns and I decided to keep them. I pulled one out and there was this very quaint house with a chimney. It was very basic and easy to draw. Then I added a couple of circle flowers and a sun. Painting had to be any color but red! Just as in quilting making I added the borders with paper that reminded me of fabric. It needed something else…I went to the black and white picture box of hundreds of images. Right on top was one that worked perfect - a young lady in a white dress – so innocent! Play is so important in creating art. I had so much fun and the paint and paper seemed so “happy” to me. Happy is a good thing right now in the USA. The economy is bleak with businesses closing and more and more layoffs on a weekly if not daily basis. This series has brought me enormous joy and delight as well as others that have seen and/or bought them. It’s interesting for me to watch people looking/touching them. I had three little 6” pieces and I shared them with my best friend and she just held them and kept looking at them for the longest time and then she said, “You must sell these as a set they belong together!” I sometimes find it hard to part with them. There’s just something so whimsical and carefree about them that I hate to let go…but then I know I can go upstairs and create more! Yes, they haunt and tease me to come up and create…I’m so glad they do! Maybe I should call them “escape art?” It’s nice to escape now and then and just “play!” Amarie Hill |
Amarie Hill lives in Canyon Country, CA, USA
More of Amarie's art can be seen on her site at www.amusink.net
Email Amarie at Amariehill @ aol.com (remove the spaces)