Portfolio:
Mixed-Media Artworks
by Douglas E. Taylor
The original artworks seen below are available to add to your collection, except where noted.
Mixed-Media on canvas:
Usually, these tactile artworks integrate layers of collage and acrylic painting. Each piece is painted and collaged, painted and collaged, painted and collaged… in countless layers of visual involvement.
The collage elements are various pieces of my hand-printed images. These fragments of my printmaking are cut and or torn and then combined, pasted onto the canvas with archival acrylic medium, sometimes included with a variety of Oriental rice papers.
Since 1986, I have been experimenting with iridescent and iridescent interference acrylic paints. These special acrylic paints can create a magic sense of subtle animation, causing colors to shift and change with the viewer's relationship with the light source and the character and quality of that light. This reminds me of how nature’s colors shift and change in the sky or on the surface of the water; sometimes like a flowing curtain on a stage revealing another scene.
The many different printmaking processes that I use as collage pieces are described in my Portfolio: Original Mixed-Process Printmaking.
More Than, a new mixed-media artwork on canvas (collage of printmaking with acrylic painting and iridescent acrylic painting)
42.5 x 50 inch image,
$9,000 framed or unframed
A limited edition digital print on canvas is also available.
More Than (detail) of new mixed media artwork
More Than (another detail) of new mixed media artwork
Trout Swimming Through the Depth of Guy Clark Songs,
mixed-media on canvas,
30 x 20 inches, gallery wrapped canvas,
$2,500
Perch,
a mixed-media on canvas,
20 x 16 inches,
$1,335
Fall Swallows the Woods (aspens and swallows), mixed-media on canvas,
30 x 20 inches,
SOLD, through Marcus Daly Hospital Foundation Fundraising Art Show 2020.
Read the companion poem.
Through the Seasons (aspen tree and leaves),
mixed-media on canvas,
53 x 17.25 inches image, plus dark cherry wood frame,
$3,655
A number of cardinals (My mother’s story)
mixed-media on gallery-wrapped canvas or cherrywood frame, 2022
20 x 30 inches, canvas size
$2,500
From the Wild Garden (Stellers Jay, Camas Lilly, Ponderosa Pine) revised version 2022
a mixed-media, see companion poem
17 x 13 inches, image
$1,200 framed
Great Blue Heron,
mixed-media on canvas,
21 x 24 inch image,
SOLD
Great Horned Owl,
a mixed-media,
18.5 x 22-inch image,
$1,835 framed or unframed
Hawk (Element Series: air) This is the last available
a mixed-media on canvas,
12 x 10 inches image (18 x 16 overall with frame)
SOLD
Rocky Mountain Elk III (A Part of the Whole)
mixed media on canvas (collage of various printmaking, Oriental rice papers,with acrylic painting)
25 x 18 inches, image
30 x 23 overall frame size
$2,055 framed or unframed
Solar Bear II (polar bear on thin ice)
mixed-media on canvas, image 24 x 21 inches,
$2,255 unframed,
$2,650 framed with 3 inch wide wood, rustic bronze finish frame
Limited edition digital prints of these two polar bear images were created to benefit The Great Bear Foundation and can be purchased through that important organization.
50% of the purchase benefits the non-profit foundation.
See their website for more information about how you can help: greatbear.org and order these prints.
Solar Bear I (polar bear in hot water)
mixed-media on canvas,
image 19 x 21 inches,
$1,775 framed as displayed
The magic of iridescent interference acrylic colors
These are examples of the same artwork, (Watching Over Us), the angle and quality of light are different in each photograph, revealing an intensity of subtleness of color where “Interference iridescent colors are glazed over other colors, especially darker colors. I intend that these colors add to the visual language of animation that I sometimes witness in nature.
When the viewer is at different angles from the light source the colors appear to magically shift and change. The colors range from almost invisible to very vibrant. All of my mixed-media artworks include the use of iridecent interference colors.
Watching Over Us
(Blanket of Stars…Hawk visits at night at Pyramid Lake, Nevada)
25.5 x 21.5 inches
$2,285 on gallery-wrapped canvas
While camping overnight near the shore of Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada, on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, my girlfriend and I had a visit by a great and curious spirit. Sleeping on the ground in the middle of a large ring of boulders, we awoke with the sounds of a large hawk crying. First, I was startled by the change in the dark sky, noticing how the constellations had changed from then until we had fallen asleep. I remember wondering about space and time and wishing upon the bright stars in the firmament. Hours must have passed.
The sounds were coming from a large boulder to the south, then moved to another boulder to the west, then to the east, then to the north. The sounds had circled us and the open-sky campsite. Focusing on the last sound, we saw a silhouette of a large hawk perched on the crest of the boulder nearest me, about fifteen feet away from my sleeping bag. A blanket of stars clustered behind the distinctive great bird shape. I glanced down to find my flashlight and the spirit was gone.
Nothing was left to me except a memory, inspiration to make a series of images from this trueness, from this new chapter in my life, from the feeling of being connected to a much larger self… a part of something larger.
Every one of my visits to that sacred area was teaming with mystic experiences. I was warned before my first visit that such things would happen. It would be wise to be careful and respectful, to expect the unexpected. This was one of my experiences. I feel that there is room enough in the universe for such personal mysteries.
