WORKS ON PAPER | Lynn Welker

• Roam Free

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1.25. Roam Free was juried into the International Water Media Signature Exhibition. This prestigious one-of-a-kind show features 100 water media works by artists from the U.S., China, Malay…

• Light in the Cavern

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 19 x 1.25. This painting started as a landscape with a hill and sky at the top. While working on it, I started to feel like it was becoming boring and predictable. I surely didn't want that! So,…

• Azure Strand

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1.25. Azure Strand will be a featured painting in my selection of work at Sandstone Gallery Laguna beginning in September. The bright blue colors are repeated in the nearby ocean and sunny…

• Surge

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1. In the beginning, you can see the orange color was at the top. I tried and tried to compose something interesting and different. It just wasn't happening. So I turned the paper around an…

• By the Lake

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1. By the Lake was created using acrylic paint, high flow ink, and collage on 300# watercolor paper. The painting began by pouring a sage green acrylic paint and sepia ink across the white…

• Transparent Shallows

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 19 x 1. I love the act of painting loose and free. Experimenting with overlapping colors to create movement speaks to the diagonal form in this work. Only at the end did I tighten up and define…

• Windswept

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 19 x 1. I love the act of painting loose and free. Experimenting with overlapping colors to create movement speaks to the diagonal sweeping form in this artwork. Only at the end did I tighten up…

• Castle Rock Canyon

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1. Castle Rock Canyon was juried and shown in the National Watercolor Society's 2022 International Exhibition Sept 1-Nov 6, 2022. As this painting developed, it became a big shape gritty la…

• Shadows

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 19 x 1. Is it a landscape? Is it figurative? I see doorways and mysterious ancient looking walls. There is so much to interpret in this mixed media painting on paper. Now, make up your own story…

• Memory Chambers

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1. Wouldn't it be nice to have a place to store important memories for the future? Can you remember everything from your past? Probably not. Memory Chambers is the perfect solution for savi…

• Stillness

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 22 x 1. It's no secret, I love abstraction. Creating from my mind and inventing before unseen landscapes, is what excites me. Stillnesss began merely by pouring black and turquoise inks across t…

• Somewhere Along the Way 19x23

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 23 x 1. Characteristic of many of my landscape paintings, Somewhere Along the Way combines patterns found in nature with invented architectural form. Rolling hills and occasional cliffs are inte…

• Ancient Chambers 24x32

  Mixed Media, Paper, 24 x 32 x 1.5. Ancient Chambers is an invented scene on a natural hillside created from my imagination. This mixed media painting combines acrylic paint, inks, charcoal, and painted collage papers to…

• Estuary 24x32

  Mixed Media, Paper, 24 x 32 x 1.5. Although I invent the places depicted in my paintings,, occasionally there are influences that nudge me toward a subject. I am fortunate to live on a back bay estuary near the ocean. I…

• Adrift in Time 23x28

  Mixed Media, Paper, 28 x 23 x 1.5. Adrift In Time is a one of a kind, original mixed media work. It was created by combining hand painted collage papers and acrylic paint. I love the experimental aspect of using differe…

• Torn Sky

  Mixed Media, Paper, 22 x 19 x .75. "Torn Sky" is a mixed media painting combining acrylic paint, inks and collage. It is presented in a simple black wood frame with a floating white mat showing the natural deckle edge o…

• Canyon Glow 31x23

  Mixed Media, Paper, 31 x 23 x 1.5. Canyon Glow is a mixed media painting on 300# watercolor paper. The addition of minimal bits of collaged rice papers adds a subtle change in texture, not always noticeable at first gla…

• Into the Deep 30x24

  Mixed Media, Paper, 30 x 24 x 1.5. "Into the Deep" is a mixed media painting using acrylic, inks and collage. It is painted on 300# watercolor paper, with an acid-free white floating mat, framed under plexiglass. The mo…

• Silent Breath of Winter

  Mixed Media, Paper, 21 x 27 x 1.5. FINALIST IN THE DECEMBER BOLD BRUSH CONTEST Silent Breath of Winter is a mixed media painting on paper. I used acrylic soft body paint, hand painted collage rice papers and high flow i…

• Layers of History 12x15

  Mixed Media, Paper, 12 x 15 x 1.5

• Searching For Monoliths 18x36

  Mixed Media, Paper, 18 x 36 x 1.5. I have always been interested in the area of Stonehenge. It is so mysterious with ever evolving discoveries of its history."Searching for Monoliths" was created after I read a in depth…

• Secret Grotto 19x28

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 28 x 1.5. When creating a new work, I always turn it around to check composition form all angles. This painting had me confused because I liked it this way as Secret Grotto and also flipped, tit…

• Red Door, Green Door 19x23

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 23 x 1.5. Acrylic, collage, and watercolor pencil were all used to create this abstract architectural painting. Red Door, Green Door is a strong composition of irregular geometric shapes that da…

• Hidden Bridge 24x32
• Spirits in the Woods 19x16

  Mixed Media, Paper, 19 x 16 x 1. Have you ever walked through the woods and sensed an unseen presence? I used to, all the time, when wondering through undeveloped patches of land near my Southern Ohio neighborhood. I'm…

• Lingering Fog 14x18

  Acrylic, Paper, 14 x 18 x 1. Lingering Fog was created after driving down Laguna Canyon Road. It is often foggy as you get closer to the beach. There is often a chill in the air during in winter months so I used a cool…

• Weather in the Canyon 14x18

  Mixed Media, Paper, 14 x 18 x 1. "Weather in the Canyon" was created with Laguna Canyon in mind. It is often foggy and cold in winter months hence the very cool palette. Telephone poles and lines move the viewer's eye t…

• Mountain Mist 30x40

  Mixed Media, Paper, 30 x 40. Mountain Mist is a diptych painting combining two 24x18 300# watercolor paper panels. It is framed in a dark brown contemporary frame with a floating white mat. All of the natural deckle edg…