From the website:
The third annual Translations in Tupperware Global Design Contest invites consumers and designers from around the world to create a piece of art or unique functional product inspired by Tupperware Channel your inner artist and create a Tupperware-inspired work of art that could send you and your masterpiece to New York City!
The deadline […]
Technique Tuesday!
The original inspiration for this background was a bag of letter blocks that I found in an antique store…SCORE!! Using my new toys, I decided to make some background papers for use in other projects. Here’s how to make a very simple style of mixed text background paper.
Rip up different texts, including foreign text, […]
Make Art Monday!
The last time our family visited my in-laws in Virginia, we found this fabulous rusty barbed-wire fence with the beautiful mountains in the background. I used a number of old pieces of text to create a background for one of my shots. I also stamped all of our initials around the background, using […]
BIG HONKING WATERMARKS
Charley Parker has a brilliant post on how you should design your website if you want to insure that you never sell any work. Written tongue firmly in cheek, Charley cuts to the heart of several of my personal pet-peeves. But then he turns around and mentions a few things that I […]
Black Plum
Artist: Dennis Yuen
Business name: Studio CaiLun
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website & Blog:
Studio CaiLun
CaiLun blog
Black Plum, detail
How do you describe your work?
I’d describe the essence of my work is heavily influenced by graphic arts. I came from a background of photography, cinematography and graphic design therefore I always think of composition and colors when I work […]
Technique Tuesday!
My daughter recently bought a roll of metallic vinyl with an adhesive backing. It seemed like the perfect material to use in order to try the “weathered metal” technique that everyone on the Altered Books email group was talking about. It’s a very simple technique, and you probably already have everything you need […]
Make Art Monday!
Losing Our Grip
Another piece combining a physical background paper with digital effects. Tomorrow for Technique Tuesday, I’ll be outlining the steps for creating this interesting weathered metal background paper.
Tags: Collage, Digital Art, Mixed Media, Photography, photoshop
Make Art Monday!
Carolyn posted a comment after I shared the instructions for making a grid stamp and told me that she had used the technique to make a unique card. I was thrilled that she was willing to share both her process and the results with all of us. Thank you so much, Carolyn!
Carolyn created […]
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