RECYCLED, 9081, abstract collage with recycled materials

This painting started out with a piece of rusted scrap metal I found in a parking lot a year ago. The metal sat around in my studio until I finally decided what to do with it. I think it came off a rusted car.
The support, in this case, is a cabinet door. It is actually a nice oak door and it was unfinished, so I first started out by gessoing the panel and painting the edge black. I textured the panel with modeling compound. Then I cut pieces of silver and gold colored aluminum metal foil and copper metal and cemented them on to the surface.
The grid is some metal mesh I found in my garage. I attached the scrap metal to the panel with screws and copper wire. The silver foil was too bright, so I painted over it with quinacridone gold, a very transparent fluid acrylic by Golden. The blue is Golden's primary cyan, which is also very transparent. Using transparent colors on a reflective surface allows the shine to come through.
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Fenced Poppies, 12x36 original acrylic painting of poppies

I have another show this weekend, so gotta do some more poppies. They sell well because I think people respond to the vibrant colors and the texture. In this painting, I tried to simulate a chain link fence in the background. I actually did see some poppies growing against such a fence. I have always been attracted to squares and grids (don't know why) and did a whole series of paintings with grid backgrounds a couple years ago. History repeats itself.

That reminds me of a funny cartoon I cut out of the paper: Two little old ladies are looking at house plants. The first one says, "I named the fern JFK, the ficus MLK, and the ivy Lincoln."

The second one observes, "All met untimely deaths."

The first one replies, "History will repeat itself."

Cracks me up because I occasionally have house plant fatalities. Last winter I was so frustrated with aphids eating the blossoms on my hibiscus, I put the plant outside. The aphids froze to death, as did the hibiscus. Tough love. SOLD