Artwork by Vena Paylo | paintings & mixed media
Welcome and thanks for dropping by! My artwork is a visual love letter to music and graphic design, with dashes of humor and mystery. I hope it inspires you to revisit your favorite album covers and celebrate the joyful intersection of art and music.
Mixed Tapes | musings
Name Game
Test piece; experimenting with making a name from letters cut from LPs.
Chance Encounter
Working for the library makes it so easy to borrow and return books that it’s made me literary-ly adventurous. Still, I don’t know why I picked up Unlock Your Aesthetic, probably because the cover features a 70s/80s hybrid background and is matte embossed over gloss....
The Times They Are NOT a-Changin’
When you work on a collage you really look at images. Like, really LOOK. So, I was working with the cover of George Shearing's Latin Lace, trying to decide where I wanted to cut it to fit my collage. And after staring at it for so long it occurred to me - Wow, her...