This month I played - mostly with collage and exploring the boundaries of 'mixed media'. What you see below is all 'in progress' because I keep adding, but I've used paint, tape, wrappers, receipts, string, stamps, beads, buttons, fabric, cardboard, lipstick, dried flowers, avocado bag netting, sequence, and magazine parts. I see wrappers in a whole new way - as colours and textures that can be layered to create something entirely new. 

Toward the end of January, I wanted to paint a glass. I tried twice (see below), and am learning to see light and shadow differently. My painting style is not a realist, but I love how looking at glass made me "see", and I feel inspired to keep going with it. For now.