KAREN MASON - Artist/Painter
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Tasty Delicious

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Karen Mason in collaboration with Margaret Dorfman
I am actively collaborating with fellow artist, Margaret Dorfman (
https://www.margaretdorfman.com/) in creating these cocktail, fruit, and vegetable themed paintings that utilize a backdrop of parchment made from what you would find on your breakfast or dinner table.
Margaret first transforms fresh fruit and vegetables (papaya, lemons, beets, radishes) into translucent parchment sheets through aging, drying and pressing which permanently preserves their botanical structure and natural colors.  I then adhere the sheets to cradled wood panels, pour a thick layer of resin over the piece, and once dry I sand the surface to prepare it for the paint and ink.  For this series, I primarily used ink with opaque, gouache to provide a semi-transparent effect that bridges somewhere between watercolors and oils.  Shadows were finished in oil and a final pour of resin is applied, giving it a 3-dimensional feel with the upper layers of the painted subject popping above the lower layer of actual vegetables/fruit from which they were inspired.  The piece is finished off with a final sanding and top layer that resembles encaustic but is more durable and soft to the touch.  ​
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Margarita Time  
​12"x12"  
Limes, Ink, Oil, Resin on Cradled Board
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Margarita for Two
14”x14” Limes, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Lemon Drop Martini
12”x12”
​​Lemons, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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​Lemon Drop in a Coupe
12”x12”
​Lemons, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Lemony Drop Martini (Sold)
​12”x12”
​Lemons, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Orange Sunshine Morning
16" x 16" Oranges, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Plum Wine is Fine
12”x12”
​Plums, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Beets a Flirting (Sold)
8”x8” Beets, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Beets a Basking
10”x10” Beets, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Beets Swinging on a String
14”x14” Beets, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Beet Doubles  (Sold)
​12”x12”
Beets, Ink, Resin, Oil on Cradled Board
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Radish Doubles  
​12"x12"  
Radish, Ink, Oil, Resin on Cradled Board
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Mixed Doubles
8"x10"
​Radishes, Beets, Acrylic, Ink, Resin on Cradled Board
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​Sun Kissed Bamboo Sonnet
16”x16” Leek, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Leek and Bamboo Dance
16”x16” Leek and Resin ​on Cradled Board
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 Blue Bamboo Sonnet
16”x16” Leek, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Bamboo Bunch Quartet
24”x18" Leeks, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Carrots Balancing on a String
16”x16” Carrots, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Double the Carrots
​14”x14" 
​Carrots, Ink, Resin on Cradled Board
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Leek & Bamboo Doubles (Sold)
​14” x14"
​Leek, Ink, Resin on Cradled Board ​
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Green Papaya Doubles
 14”x14”   
​Green Papaya, Ink, Resin on Cradled Board 
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Bold Papaya
8”x8”
Papaya, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board

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Staring Papaya
10”x10”
​Papaya, Ink, Acrylic, Resin​ on Cradled Board
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Orange Papaya Doubles  (Sold)
​10”x10' 
​Papaya, Ink, Resin, Oil on Cradled Board
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Night Heron – Decisions
12”x12” Daikon, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Night Heron - Debating
10”x10” Zucchini, Ink, Acrylic, Resin on Cradled Board
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Kiwi Contemplating Kiwi Dessert
10”x10” Kiwi, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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Kiwi, All About Kiwi
12”x12” Kiwi, Ink, Acrylic, Resin ​on Cradled Board
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