Splashing Through Life - Art by Patricia Henderson

  Underpainting - ready to apply paper! You can see how the collage is also on all sides. No need for framing! Finished! Lollipop! and Candy is Dandy! (Licorice Allsorts) are heading out today to my collector in Washington state! What a fun commission, I enjoyed creating both candy collages so much! Thank you Erin F. for the opportunity.

Candy is Dandy! 6X6X1.5" paper collage   I have been commissioned to do a couple of small collages for a very nice lady in Spokane, Washington. She had seen some of my older pieces on Pinterest and contacted me! She wanted something in the theme of candy/sweets and has given me free rein as to what I chose to do. How awesome is that? I've just completed the first one and of course I gave myself a challenge. LOL These colourful Licorice Allsorts have A LOT of tiny pieces, considering the canvas is only 6" X 6". I like how it turned out though. The next one will be on a 10" X 10" canvas. Stay tuned to see what I decide to do!

I'm busy trying to get my tulip collage done today, so I'm going to cheat this one time and post one of the frogs I did as a special order last week. Back to our regularly scheduled programming next week! (Hopefully)

I've had little green frogs hopping around in my brain all week! I was commissioned to paint a bunch of tiny tree frogs by a lady who found me on Etsy. So far I've done five 3" X 5" paintings. Then I realized that it's watercolour Wednesday! So I stopped what I was doing and did a sketch of some of the paintings! With my client's permission I might be able to post the originals at a later date.  It was coincidental that I saw on Facebook today that scientists have discovered a  tree frog in Costa Rica that looks just like Kermit!  Real Life Kermit Kermit's Kousins From my Sketchbook 3" X 5"

Here in Southwestern Ontario, we seem to have plunged directly into Autumn without any transition! Brrr! Looking out into my garden, it's starting to look pretty sad, compared to its glory days in July. Recently, I completed a garden collage painting commissioned by one of my favourite clients. (Thanks, Jennifer!) She wanted something to remind her of her cottage garden in the depths of February.  If you would like your own personalized collage painting, just contact me and I can work with you to create something fun and beautiful and "just yours"! The completed painting:  A portion of the garden: A quick concept sketch: Some closeups:

Finished this on the weekend. It was my first architectural collage piece. Challenging, but worth it! Thanks Jennifer for asking me to do this for you! Hill House  Hand Painted and found papers on canvas

The lady who bought my "Spring Chicken" collage piece asked me if I could do a companion for her. She raises chickens, so I asked her if she had a favourite rooster, and she sent me some great photos of this fellow. He is a "Lakenvelder" rooster, very handsome, and although the hens adored his fancy feathers and ruby comb and wattle, he wasn't up to snuff in the baby chick producing department!  He has gone to live at Circle R Ranch near London, Ontario where he will,  as my client says, " live a happy long life" Happy Retirement Mr. Rooster!

I was excited a few weeks ago to receive an email from a lady who had found my art on Fine Art America . She was interested in having me paint a full sheet (22" X 30") watercolour similar to my painting "Fiesta!" Well, it has been a while since I did that painting, so I got to work composing and practising. After two failed paintings, (lets call them practice pieces!) I finally got to one I liked. The client likes it too, so it will soon be heading off to Pickering! Here it is, Fiesta 3: