Maria Sky's Artwork



Drawing - Painting - Photography - Basketry - Bookmaking - Collage - Assemblage - Ceramics - Encaustics

Bugs

Photo of ladybug with a plastic discard that looks like a bug Photo of a moth Photo of a stinkbug with a glass bead Phots of green bug with a green leaf Photo of fly with many plastic eyes

Mini Baskets

Handwovern mini-baskets with parakeet feathers Blue Handwovern mini-basket Handwovern mini-basket Colorful hand wovern mini-basket with black flat beads

Books

Accordian folded books

“Bug Books” These books were based on an accordian fold. To read the book, one must pull on the tab which then opens the book.


Front side of folded book on stilts Back side of folded book on stilts

“UpDown” This book was created in such a manner that a person can read it by flipping it over - one would be up and the other side down.



Ceramics

The slab method was used when creating these various animals.


rhino camel horse elephant dog

Sink Prints

Sinks, dirty with left over tempera paint, were the basis of Sink Prints. Large sheets of paper were placed on top and a “print” would be made. After it dried, various images “appeared” which were then enhanced with pastels.


Tempera paint and pastel drawing of a lion's head

“Docile King”

23 x 18 inches, Tempera paint and pastels ©2004 All Rights Reserved


Temerpa paint and pastel drawing of a horse's head

“Challenge”

17 x 11 inches, Tempera paint and pastels ©2004 All Rights Reserved



Temerpa paint and pastel drawing of an unicorn's head

“Unicorn”

14 x 11 inches, Tempera paint and pastels - ©2004 All Rights Reserved



Collage

A collage of pictures of various creatures, with the artist looking at them.

“Me”

30 x 40 inches, assemblage/collage - ©2010 All Rights Reserved - This collage consists of all the various creatures found in nature, which often, we do not see unless we look closely.



Assemblage

A fish is looking in disbelief at the two plastic bottles that are now part of his environment.

“My New Home Environment”

16 x 20 inches, Mixed Media - ©2018 All Rights Reserved -

Time and Tide Bell #200Fish Rock Cook Fish


The fish looks in disbelief at the two plastic bottles and small metal toy truck and one plastic cap that have been tossed haphazardly, by humans, into the ocean, not thinking of what this is doing to the ocean's environment. This particular combination of items is to show the debris that are rapidly become common place in the Earth's oceans.


A Rock Cook (also known as 'small mouth wrasse') is a colourful small-sized fish found living among seaweed beds located throughout the ocean waters of Britain and Ireland as well as in the eastern Atlantic from Norway to Portugal and Greenland. It eats various crustaceans and is considered a 'cleaner fish' since it removes ectoparasites from other fish. It is ironic that this fish is a 'cleaner fish', taking care of other fish, yet must live in a polluted ocean, due to the thoughtless humans with whom it shares its environment..






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