Roann Mathias is a mixed media artist who specializes in calligraphy. She is a teacher and a card designer. How would you like to be able to letter like this? Find out about her workshops and see more of her work at her beautiful website, RM Designs!
Tags: calligraphy, Mixed Media
The tremendously talented (and generous) Holly F Dupre has created a PDF book that you can read to learn about the techniques that she uses to create stunning and ethereal images like these:
Tags: image-transfers, Photography, polaroid, tutorials
Technique Tuesday!
First you need to know that the machine isn’t cheap! You might really want to think about taking a class if you can find one to make sure that you really enjoy the process. But here’s the rest of what you need to know:
DayLab makes the machine. They have workshop teachers listed on […]
Make Art Monday!
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to try out an image transfer machine by DayLab. It is extremely cool! You insert a slide, expose a piece of polaroid film, let it develop partway, and transfer the negative to a piece of watercolor paper or fabric! Very very cool.
This is the […]
Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, ohmygosh…
Dani, Mike, and I went to see TSO last weekend, Saturday night! The concert went from 8 till 11pm, NO INTERMISSION!! These guys are just fireballs of energy, and this was their second show for the day. It was truly amazing, and even though we’ve got a very nice stereo system, thankyouverymuch, I […]
Almost finished. Still needs to be smoothed on top and textured more on the bottom. And stained :-)
Artist: Valerie Foster
Website & Blog:
Val’s Altered Heart Journey
Val’s Webshots album
How do you describe your work, Val?
I describe it as rather haphazard, or all over the map. I think I have my own style, but it’s hard for me to pin it down. Most of my art is free-style, out of my own head. […]
There’s a new kid on the block in the realm of decorated and altered clothing: Make It Mine
From their website:
Make It Mine is a craft magazine that shows you how to spice up your stuff–clothes, accessories and home–with fun, quick and easy projects. You’ll learn how to embellish or alter ready-made items, or even to […]
Kumi Korf
Thank you to the San Francisco Center for the Book!
From the website:
We’ve added a visual database called Book Pix to our website. It features thumbnail photos of the structures taught in SFCB classes. When you see an image that intrigues you, just click on it for an enlargement and class description.
Oh yeah, no problem! […]
Technique Tuesday!
Over at WetCanvas, we did some simple paper casting as an October mixed media forum challenge. The results were really fun! It’s so easy to do, as our friend Sue explained to us. Most of us used one of two simple methods:
wet some toilet paper with liquid starch and press it into a mold, […]
Do not throw ANYTHING out!
Written by Cyndi Lavin [email] for b5media.
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