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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Archive for April 2008

April 22nd, 2008

Bloggy giveaways from b5Media’s lifestyle channel

What a fun week we have on tap here at b5media! Especially in the Lifestyles Channel! Many of our bloggers have worked on putting together some awesome prizes just waiting on you to win them!
Here are some of the giveaways going on right now!
There will be more giveaways going on throughout the […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Making an assemblage with resin wells

Technique Tuesday!
It took several days to make Now, Not Later. First, there were a couple of steps that needed time to dry overnight before moving on, and second, it just took me awhile to figure out what all I wanted to include in the assemblage. I tend to pull out all my possible materials that […]

By Cyndi -- 12 comments

April 21st, 2008

Leah’s offerings!

Leah Piken Kolidas sent me these images from her sketchbooks. She writes:
I blog at Creative Every Day: http://www.CreativeEveryDay.com
and my art website is here: http://BlueTreeArtGallery.com
Like you, I have a few different journals going at once. There’s a mini journal that stays in my purse. Inspiration often comes at the oddest times and I’ve learned […]

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April 21st, 2008

Art Doll Quarterly

***FREE STUFF ALERT***
Have you seen Art Doll Quarterly? I’m sure if you’re a fan of art dolls, you probably have. Dolls are not an art form that ever really entered my realm or tugged at my imagination…until I saw this magazine! WOW!! The things you can make, and this is the magazine with both the […]

By Cyndi -- 41 comments

April 21st, 2008

Now, Not Later

Make Art Monday!
Now is the time to do things: To make art, to fall in love, to be the person you want to be. There is no “later”. Waiting until “later” to do things becomes “never”.

Tags: Assemblage, found objects, Mixed Media, Recycled Art

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April 19th, 2008

Shayla wants in too!

Shayla Perreault Newcomb writes:
This was a test of a stamp I’d just made (also have the sketch to go with it). I was playing around trying to get ideas. So far I don’t have a finished painting with this image. I scribbled on some poetry relating to rain. My sketchbook used to be very mathematical, […]

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April 18th, 2008

Noreen wants in…

Here’s a tutorial to Noreen’s spool knitted worry dolls, where there are many more pictures of her sketchbook and her work!
OK, just that easy!  Noreen is now entered into the drawing for the free issue of Somerset Digital Studio…

By Cyndi -- 1 comment

April 18th, 2008

I’m not above trying to bribe you…

Sigh. I’ve gotten no response at all to my request to see photos or scans of your sketchbooks or journals.  So you’ve driven me to take drastic action…
***FREE STUFF ALERT***FREE STUFF ALERT***
 
Now you’ve gone and done it! I’ve sunk to a new all-time low! I just received an extra issue of Somerset Digital […]

By Cyndi -- 12 comments

April 18th, 2008

The Great Eye of Sauron

This is one of those things I share with you simply because I think it’s so darned cool, and mixed media artists need to look at cool stuff. No other reason. You can read the rest of the article here at The Register.
Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center […]

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April 18th, 2008

Artsy blogging round-up

Cover girl! Here’s my heart…..
Noreen Crone-Findlay designed, spool knitted and wove a wonderful heart. The art director at Harlequin Romances liked it so much that she bought one for the cover of a new Harlequin Romance. And now, they’re holding a contest so readers can win the heart. Here’s the link….
Digital Painting Tutorial
Artist Genece […]

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