"ALL TUCKED IN"

OIL on toned canvas.
"ALL TUCKED IN"

"TREE HOUSES" Oil on panel

PUSHED AROUND

some malachite green alkyd oil

with a very poor brush

to draw the tree.

Lettering lets you know where I'm going with this.

Some of the tenants with a view

to the property.

"TETE A TETE"

Oil on panel;
12 x12 inches.

"CRESTED" by FDavid Scott Meier

"CRESTED"
DAVID SCOTT MEIER
Oil and 23 carat gold
on Ampersand panel.

Each being gets a little gold applied to his crest.

"GARDENERS"

ONE

of three new mixed media paintings

from my studio. On sanded paper.

This started out as a completely

different subject.

The spiral on the left melon

is all that is left of the original design.

I repeated the device on the other melons:

one for each bird.

I like this little guy up top. There's a bit of 23 carat gold

at his feet.

"RAIN BIRDS"

'Been painting

watercolors on paper

over a ground of sanded acrylic.

I also have a batch of new brushes

in the studio.

They're liners which hold lots of paint

and are usually employed

for pin-striping.

Here's a detail of the 9 x 12 work before completion.

I've laid in some gold and bright white markings

after this shot.

"GRATIS" by David Scott Meier

Here are two birds

who have been given dinner.

"GRATIS"

Oil on collage; 9 x 14 inches

You can see the scraffito 

on the secondary bird.

A closer look at the small color bits.

"GREEN FINGERS"

David Scott Meier

"GREEN FINGERS"

Oil on collage 

on

panel. 16 x 16

The leaves are acrylic on paper; printed from a lino' block.

IBIS design...

Corel Painter.

I love having no india ink on my fingers

after drawing.

This started out as three black blobs

and then the birds were removed with different brushes.

"CLOUD MOUNTAIN" collage series

"CLOUD MOUNTAIN"

Fourth in

a series of 4 collages.

I've been thinking about this group's parts at night.

I wanted the brushwork to be

subordinate to the strong collage contrasts.

Searched for (and found by studio excavation) my good gouache pigments

to put down the gray birds.

Cloud swirls and bright whites

are type correction film.

These are in double rag mats; 11 x 14 inch format.

I think I've found the perfect frame stock for these, and ordered a quartet.

"TWO PEEPERS"

"TWO PEEPERS"

on a blue background.

How have I put white into this tiny piece?

Let's see: the birds are transferred  

typo film. The mosaic pattern is tiny

acrylic brushwork.

Oh yeah; I cut through the blue background

to make the strigil designs up top.

A little colored pencil colors the top bird and triangle below him.

About 6 x 4.5 inches.

"SOUTHWARD"

THE WEATHER

in Key West is breezy and bright.

Parrotheads are in town for the sun and music

and it's nicely social at our gallery.

As my other recent posts,

this is a smaller work on paper board.

Embossing, oil pastel, watercolor and ink.

'A GALLANT'

A TWO-PIECE COLLAGE.

Watercolor on acrylic for the birdies.

Acrylic over oil pastel

for the striated background.

Typo film for white designs.

'THREE FISHERS'

Watercolor over acrylic and transparent gesso.

'TREE HOUSE'

'TREE HOUSE'

is very mixed media

on an unusual support.

I've made use of tissue glued to

an acrylic panel. 16 x 20 inches.

The tissue squares originally held

the gold leaf I use in my work.

I painted a bunch of them with tree/leaf designs. The acrylic panel was too scratched for display.

Metallic paints decorated with type correction film.

Details in gouache over abstract acrylic.

TWO TODAY....

'DAILY BREAD' is above.

'HONEYMOON' is below.

Mixed mediums over copper paint

on rag board.

'PICNIC'

'PICNIC' before and after: 

just tweeked and

lacquered.

Little things added?

A white line on the wing.

A dark line on the bill.

By the way, this piece is painted on cheesecloth

adhered to rag board with acrylic gesso.

A NEAR PAIR....

AND...

THESE TWO

paintings are oil and acrylic on paper.

Thats 'GRATIS' up top

and

'THE LITTLE GUEST'

surrounded by red.

Each measures about 6 X 14 inches. 

COLLAGE TECHNIQUES

'NEW DAY SONG'

got its start from some block-printed cotton

I picked up here in Key West.

Quite varied patterns on one yard:

the sun/flower, geometric cross forms and

the little stylized bird profiles all

jumbled into a loose grid.

I scanned and printed the designs in different sizes

and tints. Then I assembled the collage with other

small paintings, embossings and drawings.

Have a look at this detail:

Left to right:

Type-correction film transfer on acrylic.

Scanned multiple birdies.

Type correction film on purple acrylic.

Embossed copper (line drawing flipped over)

with 23 carat gold.

Below that a tiny acrylic on oil pastel

with leaf and wing details scratched out.

The red, dotted crosses are 

the original fabric.

'SUN HAT'

'SUN HAT'

is a new acrylic triptych. Each panel is 12 inches square.

The viewer sees a cyclist riding

in front of the sun;

a blurry figure on a mechanical 

silhouette.

The sun and hint of another wheel

is a design of 23 carat gold on acrylic.

The other animate objects are

a pair of foraging birds who

have found some berries.

An iron chair sits in a formal garden.

The whole group has a tinted palette which

is subordinate to the acrylic drawings.