Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

February 29th, 2008

Artsy blogging round-up

A Creative Journal
Link to a free collage sheet to download.
Layers Upon Layers
Learn how to create a cyanotype from any photo…digitally!
Quilting & Patchwork
Mary Emma Allen, at Quilting and Patchwork, researched information about quilters who are doing something special to commemorate Black History Month.
Stamping Mad
Musings on the importance of color in art.
Tangled Thread
how to […]

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February 29th, 2008

Joe Pogan’s new assemblage videos

You might remember Joe Pogan’s artist profile last year, because I bragged about actually being fortunate enough to own one of his pieces. Well, Joe has come up with 14 videos (so far) to show the pieces in the round! What a great idea. You can see all of Joe’s videos on YouTube […]

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February 28th, 2008

Artist Profile: Boris Bally

Installation
Artist: Boris Bally
Website: Boris Bally

Metamorphic Light
Boris, how did you get started as an artist and what kind of training did you have?
I started working metals in 1974 because of a very enthusiastic and talented jewelry teacher: Steve Korpa. He changed my perception that metal was an unworkable and unforgiving material: “I will make you all […]

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February 28th, 2008

Polymer clay bricks

What’s Up Wednesday
On Crafty Goat’s Notes, Angela takes us through the process of making a faux brick phone jack cover to match her brick walls. Very neat! I’m not a polymer clay person for the most part, but it really does intrigue me how many other surfaces it can mimic…if you know how.
Or if you […]

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February 27th, 2008

Beth Wheeler’s Threadography news

Beth Wheeler wrote in with some exciting news and updates. Beth was one of our profiled artists last year, and she’s got a lot of new stuff going on this spring! First off, her new book:

In addition, Beth is going to have a very busy schedule with the following:

Online classes with Quilterskeeplearning.com (1 […]

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February 27th, 2008

Book Review: Mixed Media Mosaics

What’s Up Wednesday

Mixed Media Mosaics
by Laurie Mika
Using very few tools and not even too many materials, Laurie Mika shows us how to make polymer clay tile mosaics which are simply a feast for the eyes. Well, “simply” is the wrong word. Although these are not difficult to make, the finished effect is dazzling. You would […]

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February 26th, 2008

Mixed media collages with embroidery

Technique Tuesday!

The collage that I showed you yesterday (above) was made in a very similar fashion to this one from over a year ago:

I wove the background stips of paper together and adhered the paper cast center before beginning the rest of the embellishments, but otherwise, the two are pretty similar in construction methods. Here’s […]

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February 25th, 2008

A mixed media “quantum leap”

Make Art Monday
Layers Upon Layers belongs to the LifeStyle channel here at b5Media. As a channel, we’ve decided to do a little retrospective in honor of leap year, and we’re calling it Quantum Leap :-) The idea was to look back four years and ahead four years…and basically do whatever we wanted with that theme!
So, […]

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February 25th, 2008

Pesach - an updated collage

Make Art Monday!
Last year, there was a paper casting challenge in the mixed media forum of WetCanvas. I made several pieces out of watercolor paper, but was never really satisfied with my finished piece.
I finally got around to reworking it in order to make something that would be more to my liking. I love […]

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February 23rd, 2008

Dani is off for Italy!

Poor dear…can you imagine anything more awful than having to spend an entire semester in Italy studying sculpture and oil painting? Poor poor little thing… ;-)

We had quite an adventure getting her out of here yesterday since the whole east coast had a snowstorm! We found out around 9:15 am that her early afternoon flight […]

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