Artist: Christy Grant
Location: Mechanicsville (a suburb of Richmond) known for its Hanover tomatoes and good schools,Virginia
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Art Chickadee’s Reflections
Christy Grant’s Gallery
Christy, how do you describe your work?
Layers, not unlike your site here, Layers Upon Layers. I’m happiest with lots of “stuff” going on in a mixed media piece. Sort of telling […]
Art Attack Thursday
Known mostly for her whimsical fabric dolls, Mimi Kirchner has made detours into other fabric arts as well. Here is a set of gorgeous fabric postcards and ATC’s that she made this fall. I highly recommend just visiting Mimi’s blog with a cuppa, and taking in the fabric beauty!
Tags: Art Quilts, […]
Just when I thought it was safe to come back out of hiding, Joshua “Junk Man” Johnson went and tagged me to tell seven random things about myself that you might not know. On both blogs, the brat! Well, I’ll fix him…I’m going to post the same list on both blogs >:-) So while I […]
Sponsored by the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Deadline to receive entries: March 1, 2008
Exhibit: May 1 to May 31, 2008
An all media national juried exhibition of works on paper, made of paper, or conceptually about paper. All media and new media will be considered. Artwork, performance, or installations with special instructions or equipment must […]
What’s Up Wednesday
The Art of Personal Imagery
by Corey Moortgat
Corey makes a strong request of her readers: please keep an open mind about using imagery that you’ll probably consider too personal and intimate. This request echoes what I read each month in the mixed media journals…”please, no more dunce hats and cute children with wings.” Although […]
Technique Tuesday!
Most photo-editing probably has a desaturate button, or maybe even a grayscale mode. These remove the color and also the life from a photo. Photoshop had a wonderful conversion method in the Channel Mixer: you’d add an adjustment layer, tick the monochrome box, and slide your green and blue sliders up to total about […]
Make Art Monday
You know how you can go along, being perfectly happy with what you’ve got, and then you see something better? Suddenly, the old perfectly good thing looks shabby and unsatisfactory.
Well, I’ve experienced that a lot since I got the Photoshop upgrade last fall. I was pretty satisfied with my old Channel Mixer method […]
Did you enjoy Chris Tessnear’s tutorial yesterday? I sure did! Even though I’ve been making mixed media art for quite some time, there are always tips and tricks that I learn from other people’s work. Ideas that make me say to myself, “Hmmm…gonna be trying that tomorrow!”
Do you have an idea for […]
Would some realistic, but artificial bones be cool for your assemblage art, or what? Or what about something like the saber-toothed kitty below for in your entry hall?
Bones Clones
Cards by Chris Tessnear, all using one theme
Chris Tessnear
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Read Chris Tessnear’s artist profile
1. Choose an old watercolor painting you know longer wish to keep.
2. Cover with Gesso (an acrylic prep medium). Run a texture comb or plastic fork through the wet Gesso in various patterns. Dry thoroughly.
3. Paint over the textured Gesso with […]
Do not throw ANYTHING out!
Written by Cyndi Lavin [email] for b5media.
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