What’s Up Wednesday!
Sew News magazine is a monthly publication devoted to the enthusiastic and creative woman who wants to sew. We provide her with accurate, helpful, step-by-step information for personalizing ready-to-wear and creating original fashions, accessories, gifts and home décor that express her personal style.
What Sew News is looking for:
Articles should teach a specific technique, […]
Rings and Things is sponsoring their annual “Your Designs Rock” contest, and all the important info is available on their website. Get started thinking about it now, even though the entry form won’t be available until February 1. Entries can be made for the entire month of February, and this contest is really worth entering! […]
Technique Tuesday!
This time use a sheet of foil for your background! Wrinkle it and spread it back out without pressing out the wrinkles.
Use Golden’s GAC 100 as the acrylic medium that you mix with your paints. Do not use any water! This will eventually cause the paint to peel away from the foil. Use […]
Make Art Monday!
Here are the rest of the papers and such that I painted a few weeks ago, during my busy-little-bee day when I replenished my supply. Tomorrow for Technique Tuesday, the how to’s.
Tags: Mixed Media, Paper
Artist: Zura Beth
Website: Creative Clown
Zura, how do you describe your work, and why did you pick your business name?
That is an interesting question, because reading the first part, I would have answered that a lot of my work comes from a deep emotional place and a lot of it is quite dark. But reading the […]
500 Tables
Editor: Ray Hemachandra
Juror: Andrew Glasgow
Lark Books seeks excellent images of one-of-a-kind tables for a superb new collection representing the best in traditional, conceptual, and practical modern furniture design. Handmade dining-room, side, end, corner, coffee, picnic, pool, game, sculptural, high-end, and experimental tables made of wood, metal, glass, fabric, resin, clay, cardboard, found objects, […]
What’s Up Wednesday!
Zeborah Loray has written a great tutorial on how to mimic the look of old fashioned carnival glass with a couple of modern products! Specifically, she uses a special embossing enamel and a product called Fantasy film. The look is amazing similar to the real thing!
Tags: Mixed Media, tutorials, Wearable Art
Technique Tuesday!
Use a sheet of 140 lb watercolor paper. Apply extra heavy gel medium unevenly with your hands.
Stamp in texture with a large stamp and let dry (or use a heat gun).
Give it a light glaze of Quinacridone Gold acrylic.
Sponge lightly with Permanent Violet Dark, Quinacridone Violet, and Citrine. Repeat with colors as […]
Make Art Monday!
One of the true pleasures of being a mixed media artist is when your stash of painted papers begins to run low. No, really…because now you’ve got an excuse to set aside a day and make more! I love to have a lot of papers and fabrics to choose from, and I really […]
Do not throw ANYTHING out!
Written by Cyndi Lavin [email] for b5media.
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