Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

April 30th, 2007

Stone Lily

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Stone Lily

Tomorrow, for Technique Tuesday, we’ll talk about the steps used to create this digital mixed media collage :)
Tags: Collage, Digital Art, Mixed Media, Photography, photoshop

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April 27th, 2007

Call for entries: 1,000 Artist Journal Pages

From Rockport’s website:
**DEADLINE MAY 15, 2007**
We are seeking project contributors for an upcoming book tentatively titled 1,000 Artist Journal Pages. The book will feature pages of artists journals created by non-professional artists. Projects should be artist journal pages that are bound into a journal or book or created to be bound in a journal […]

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April 26th, 2007

Artist Profile: Pipyr

Artist: Pipyr
Website: Pipyr Art Glass

Pipyr, how do you describe your work, and why did you chose the business name that you did?
“Pipyr” has been the name I have used as my artistic pseudonym since I was at least 12. Even at that age, I have always felt a duality in my life as an […]

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April 26th, 2007

Assemblage and sculptural books

So maybe you are now wondering what else you can do with books besides alter them and make journals? Well, get a load of this:

This Into That
This Into That
Contemporary fine art furniture from…books!
Susan Hensel
Exquisite literary sculptures
The Creative Zone
Judy and Michael Jacobs’s inspiring site. My personal favorites!
Sherrill Hunnibell
Mixed media altered books as […]

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April 25th, 2007

Houses…the weirder the better

Even though we don’t really delve into architecture too much on this blog, every now and then I come across houses that are just so weird that I can’t not notice them…and report on them too! Here’s an apartment building in Japan. I just don’t know what to make of it:

Reversible Destiny Lofts
And […]

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April 24th, 2007

Encased tissue paper

Wecome to part 3 of our Technique Tuesday series, what the heck to do with tissue paper!
There is lots of tissue paper available that is not just plain white! That may be a shock after the last two weeks, where all we looked at and worked with was white tissue, no patterns, no pictures, […]

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April 23rd, 2007

A Mighty Rushing Wind

Make Art Monday

A Mighty Rushing Wind
Tomorrow’s Technique Tuesday tutorial will be the third in our series on what to do with tissue paper. We’ll be looking at an interesting technique where you encase the tissue before assembling your collage or background papers. I used the piece that I’ll show you tomorrow to make […]

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April 20th, 2007

Extraordinary student work with aluminum cans!

Michelle is an art teacher with a 9th grade class of artistic geniuses! They have been working on sculpture projects, using aluminun cans, and when they saw the post here about aluminum can art, some of them wanted to share the work that they’ve been doing. And I’m so glad that they did! […]

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April 20th, 2007

Book arts summer course at University of Southern Maine

Information from USM’s website:

July 30- August 5
September 13
Seven days beside the sea in the beautiful Stone House in Freeport will be the setting for this series of Book Arts related workshops. The week will be filled with a wide range of topics including papermaking, drawing, printing, bookbinding, and design. During the […]

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April 19th, 2007

Another fabric frame!

FabricPrincess made this great frame, basically using the tutorial that I posted here on Layers Upon Layers, but giving it her own unique twist!

FabricPrincess writes: “Mine is a bit different in that the entire surface isn’t covered in trim (I didn’t have enough large pieces for that). I really like how this came out, […]

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