Inflamed. Watercolor and India ink.

Apparition. Watercolor and India ink.

Melting. Watercolor, tempera, marker, colored pencil, embroidery, gel pen, and glitter medium on paper.

 Vag-eye-nas.

“Anyone who claims to be good has yet to shake hands with her dark side. Across a hundred years I've met most of my parts, and I've lived a good deal in the shadows. I've reconciled the anger with the hope, the bitter with the bullshit, the yearning with the grief, the fake with the true. I have an unkempt soul. I am extraordinarily ordinary. But I have known love - great love. Oh, yes, I've known it. And that I will take with me into the night. I like best the parts of us that are contradictory and most human."

-Vera by Carol Edgarian

“The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.” - Revelation 13:3

Oil, watercolor, acrylic, gold leaf, embroidery thread, and bible pages from the books of Revelation and Genesis on canvas. 30”x48". © Liz Darling 2021

 

 Some watercolor cut-outs for a larger mixed media piece

 

Humility and the Things We Cannot Change. Mixed Media (watercolor, ink, image transfers, record, glitter, gold leaf, gouache, and marker) on Arches paper. 2019. 

About a year ago, I started developing scotomas (blind spots) in my vision. I’ve been to a bunch of doctors (and spent a bunch of money) and I still don’t have an explanation for why I keep developing the retinal lesions that cause these spots. As a person who needs to create in order to feel purposeful (and I do this most fluently with my eyes) this situation plunged me into a pit of anxiety and despair. I’ve tried to shift my mindset to practice gratitude and try to take things day by day, which is all we really have anyway.

 

 
The Wilderness. Mixed Media (blueprint, image transfers, fabric, beads, straws, and collage) on Canvas, 20” x 24”.

My final piece from the KCAI Continuing Ed Experimental Mixed Media Class.