collage with postage stamps

With my past experience in figure drawing and textile art work, I create “characters” using postage stamps. Sometimes the inspiration comes from the stamps themselves, and sometimes from something I’ve seen or imagined. Visual jokes are incorporated into the art works, and bring a smile to anyone who takes the time to look.

Along with postage stamps (domestic and foreign), I often use maps or interesting papers, acrylic paint, prismacolor pencil, chalk pastel, oil stick and oil pastel, and occasionally metallic ink. Each work is one of a kind, and cannot be duplicated. Most are on 16 x 12 paper, which has been prepared with gesso.  Matted and framed, they are h-20" x w-16".   Larger paper sizes are 15" x 22" or 30" x 22".

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