During COVID quarantine this past spring, when school was all virtual, Dylan (age 5) did a lot of paint-by-stickers.  This was a great opportunity for creative activities by counting numbers and great eye-hand coordination.  

Sparkle Dragon

Fused dichroic glass dancing figures mounted on corrugated heat treated copper.

All That Jazz

An abstract painting - two pieces of a dismembered shank bone, wired into a wooden panel, one of which has inserted into it a feather.  The panel carries sgraffiti, of which can be read "BEASTS."  It is painted in black, a bit of bright red and blue teal, the colored pencil scribbles are white, lime green and forest green

Beasts, Bone and Feather

A collage with a Spanish dancer, textures, colors, and sculpture. 

In The Garden

An abstract painting inspired by worn Italian wall that include warm and cool color Pat is and mark making.

Drezzo Wall

Personal photograph of a farm in sepia surrounded by a yellow/red paint and markings with a variety of black/white papers and an abstract sun.

Sunset Over the Farm

 Collaged Blue hydrangeas made from bubble art on photo paper .

Bluer than Blue

An abstract rendering of a waterfall, cauldren and river on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minneasota.

Thermal Pool

A 3-dimensional star surrounded by red tissue paper poppies. 

Red Poppy Monrovian Star

It is a baby monkey dressed in a suit with suspenders.  Colorful and bright baby blue eyes.  A white button down shirt with suspenders.  The definition of monkey is off to the side and the word baby is colored with colored pencils jumping off the page in color.  

Baby

Pastel and Watercolor Sketch of a Small Child Wearing Cookie Monster  Pajamas Standing At A Window With An Image of a British Soldier in a Gas Mask Outside.

Small Child Wearing Mask At Window

A mixed-media assemblage showing headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Europe.

Shard

The image is based on a photograph of my elderly mother.  I've added a textural background with collaged paper and floral fabric elements to the square artwork.  

Mumsy

An assemblage of a formal ornate gold frame juxtaposed with a central object of small interlocking plastic pieces forming a bright yellow figure, green 3-dimensional mohawk hair, green eyes, red mouth, white hands, brown and black 3-dimensional shoes on a formal gray background. Figure faces outward with arms outstretched.

Self-Portrait (Little Guy with Green Mohawk...) gold frame series

A whimsically dark collage of a Cecropia Moth, beatles, billy bobs, thistles, and carnations. Inspired by the short beautiful life of a cecropia moth. 

The night of the Cecropia Moth 

A mixed media hand rendering (acrylic paint, charcoal, crayon, pencil) on wood panel, inspired by the north central Minnesota landscape in summer. Splashy and deft. 

Schoolcraft Bitten

A mixed media painting on a 3D aluminum surface. The edges are dented. The left side of this image depicts a shark trying to bite a mountain climber with a mysterious orange, red, and yellow geometric abstraction layered between the two subjects. The right side of the image is multicolored text on a white background that reads "3. Letting things get in the way." 

Flaws

A collage of a fist clenching dark "revolutionary" female swooping into a gold acrylic swirl of paint.

Revolutionary

abstract landscape collage using relief ink and acrylic dry brush on paper, mounted on board.

untitled

A series of eighteen 4" x 6" plastic bags filled with randomly cut and altered sections of advertisements, solicitation mailings, or colorful marketing postcards and magazines arranged in a circle with the paper pieces in the bag along the outside and the clear zip-lock closure forming the inside of the circle. 

New Meaning #2

Vanishing into radiance

Galaxy

Mixed Media Collage of 1950's hollywood type sitting atop a circular ViewMaster reel Titles Move Stars, Hollywood. Space like circles balance out the area

Starlet

Two light blue surgical masks stretched diagonally across a panel form an X over an abstract painting of a white form in front of a green and ochre background. 

Cancelled Abstraction

Woman’s image under convex glass dreaming her universe into being. Comet set with moonstone and other celestial objects made from found objects fill night sky made of black and gold porcelain tea cup and saucer. 

Dreamer

A white four by six inch rectangle on a black felt background. The rectangle shows an ink stamped typewriter, colored green, a grawlix on the page rolling out of the top.  To the right of the typewriter are two typewritten lines.  The top line says It was the best of times, crossed out in red, the bottom line says it was the worst of times.

Assessment: 2020 As A Postcard

Collaged screen printed paper parts and paint that resemble a chaotic fruit bowl scene. 

Fruit Bowl Interrupted 

Blinded

Heronymus

A face drawn with color markers over a handwritten letter on lined notebook paper stares out at the viiewer. In the center of the face is a small orange envelope positioned vertically and stamped with an eye diagonally across the page. At the bottom of the envelope is a black and white cut out figure of a  white woman crouching with one hand on the ground, one hand raised near her head. She wears a striped dress.

The Eyes Have It

 this collage has three female faces above a large blue tampax machine.  lots of tampons and  small red squares fill the background.

Sparkle Dragon, 2020

Dylan Traynor