This technique is a hybrid crossing short-run handmade oil-based print and watercolor painting. Michelle Vara creates drawings from nature to make the short run printing plates and complete the compilation by fluid gestures in a watercolor … [Read more...] about Botanical Watercolor
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Crushed Ice on a Hot Day
Behind every good work of art, there are motivators that LEED the creative process. The motivator in this segment of work was some less than desirable but really gave time to stop and think. Yes - I use the acronym LEED for its metaphorical … [Read more...] about Crushed Ice on a Hot Day
Flowers-Oil
Oil on canvas- … [Read more...] about Flowers-Oil
Fit of Carnality
Tyranny of Data
A Shore Thing
This artist's series came as an exploration of memory when the storm Sandy hit the coast of New Jersey and Ortley Beach got wiped off the map! Michelle while helping family and friends clean up, collected material, and remembered. 715. ULA … [Read more...] about A Shore Thing
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“Air” & “Myth of the Chickadee”
Myth of the Chickadee- Oil, ink on 13" x19" Paper. The bird feeder my cause for paused I watch Chickadees with their black caps, flit about the Lilac tree. Sparking bright, shattering the darkness of winter gray, in song of a chick- a- … [Read more...] about “Air” & “Myth of the Chickadee”