Wildflower Art

Wild Beauties by Phillip Hoyle 2016
Mixed media with acrylic monoprint, ink,
color pencil, and acrylic painting. 

My fascination with wildflowers continues alongside my interest in art printing, drawing, color explorations, and mixed media. This week I completed a painting, even to the point of cutting mats and framing it in an old frame. (Somehow framing seems like the final act for me.) The piece portrays some California wildflowers, Colomia Grandiflora, the latest of my interests! I haven’t seen them in person, but I may need to take a trip to California to see their grand variety of wildflowers. No plans have been set. I’m pretty sure I’ll need to do more drawings in Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri before I make that trek.

Anyway I decided to put these beauties on a monoprint I made from my late tape-prints passion. I’m pleased especially with my endurance. My transfer of the design was difficult to see given the texture of the paint of the monoprint, but I persisted until I could see it and filled in the stems and some of the leaves to lead the way. Hope you enjoy this picture that measures 10.5 x 7.25”. I mounted it on a medium blue mat, cut a second mat of bright white, and put it in a simple modern looking dark oak frame.

Denver 2016

Springtime flowers and joy

Artist Trading Cards of Missouri springtime flora
by Phillip Hoyle 2016

In a couple of days I'll be on my way to Mid-Missouri to see my family and to engage in a couple of art projects, one a writing project, the other drawing wildflowers. I did something similar last May and enjoyed myself and the work immensely. 

The family things also involve creativity. I'll attend the graduation of a grandson who has been studying welding and metalwork at Missouri State Technical School in Lynn MO. I'll also attend a baby shower looking forward to the birth of a second great grandchild! Both celebrations will mark celebrations of new beginnings. 

Artist Trading Cards of Missouri springtime flora
Phillip Hoyle 2016

While there I plan to finish two chapters in the manuscript I've been working on for a year. I plan also to draw, draw, draw in Jefferson City Parks, the Runge Center, Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, and my son's farm. Of course there will be wonderful conversations, meals, card games, and laughter. I plan to post something from there to keep you abreast. Hopefully I'll also experience success.

Denver 2016

Springtime in My Studio

Missouri Springtime by Phillip Hoyle,  5 x 7 1/2"

Springtime has come before fall has fallen in mixed media art pieces of spring flowers. To create these I have been working from drawings I made in Mid-Missouri in May this year. I left the sketches alone for several months in the hope that I could do something not exactly like the real flowers, somehow change them into lines and colors, dots and scribbles that my son Michael would still be able to identify as the flowers I drew sitting in his prairie, garden, and pastures.

With fall just underway, I am pleased to begin showing these works. I'll let them surround me during the winter with their promise of warmth to keep me comfortable when the snow flies. Well, it's a nice sentiment!

The piece above was started as a print on a GELLI pad made with Golden OPEN acrylics. I added lines, dots, and a few paintbrush strokes. I'm already starting to think of spring even though the sun is shining brightly and warmly here each day. 

Denver 2015