I added a few hazelnuts to the painting as only one hazelnut looked a bit mean.

I drew them on a separate piece of paper with wax pencils and cut them out, glued them onto the picture.

The squirrel was done with rice paper painted with different warm colours before being torn and applied to the canvas board.

When I started this collage painting, I was really having fun imagining what these two cute pigs could be saying. In the process of gluing them with tissue paper I went to buy some bread waiting for them to dry. I was thrilled to take home a baguette wrapped in a magnificent an colourful stripped paper.I immediately saw it as part of my collage…there it is bright and perfect as a pen for pigs or as a theatre set similar to Punch and Judy!

We all remember these tragic images of rescued koalas from the fire in the Australian forest last Summer…Lots of them ended up in animal sanctuaries.. Let’s hope they will recover and will be still part of the Australian beautiful wild life!

Collage and mixed media painting on canvas board.

I thought of a TV series title for this collage painting as this stag could be part of a Scottish landscape…Collage and mixed media on canvas board..

All things shiny are attracting the magpie..this one has found a grandfather’s watch. Lots of shiny papers for this collage and sunshine to take the picture for reflection effect.

These two rams seem very close like good friends. I had to think of a dark background for the paler one and a light background for the colourful one. So the mountains came handy as a dark contrast and the sky as a light contrast, all in one picture.

I did the collage of the two rams before the background so I could obtain the right result for the light and dark values

These two creatures are having a great conversation. Their colourful brilliance is actually smartly designed camouflage for the rainforest allowing them to hide amongst the South American plants. I had great fun with colours and textures and quite the opposite effect is obtained…these two really stand out !

The last hot days are nearly over on the Riviera and I was inspired to create this mixed media painting to mark the passing of the season. This portrait was done with pastels,acrylics, ink and finally for the swim suit I used collage with my own prepared paper. The tattoo came as a final detail and was done with crayons.

I present you today a little duck family in my collage collection of cute animals. I find the colours in animals so inspiring. I add my personal touch keeping my imagination going looking for bits of paper to match more or less the reference picture… I always end up with something quite different!

Collage painting with texture and bright colour accents. These chickens are definitively telling a story ..A bit like the golden goose except it is a golden hen here…