Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

April 23rd, 2008

Call for submissions: Expressions Fiber Art Gallery

Expressions Fiber Art Gallery in San Jose
Description: CALL FOR ARTISTS
Deadline: September 30th, 2008.
Expressions Fiber Art Gallery seeks U.S. Artists 18+ creating Artist Books, Paper Sculpture, Soft Sculpture (including dolls), and Fiber Art (quilts and stitchery, woven, knitted, knotted or crocheted works including clothing and accessories) for upcoming group and solo shows in 2008. Gallery […]

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March 27th, 2008

Artist Profile: Di Hickman

Digital papers printed and used to cover a journal.
Artist: Di Hickman
Location: California, USA (but born and bred in Derby, England)
Websites & Blog:
Di Hickman
Di Hickman Designs (store)
Di Hickman (blog)

Computer journaling onto traditional scrapbook layout
How do you describe your work, Di?
I create cards, scrapbook layouts, mini books, altered projects, and ATC’s, using either paper, digital or hybrid […]

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March 27th, 2008

Into the Blystic with Elis Cooke

Stringing the Blues
My friend Val Foster turned me on to Elis Cooke’s work, and I’m so glad she did! Despite the fact that I was immediately drawn to two pieces that both happen to be blue, Elis works with all the colors of the rainbow…rich, saturated, wonderful colors. Her style is gorgeous and soothing, evocative, […]

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March 19th, 2008

Book Review: Mixed Media Collage

Mixed-Media Collage
by Holly Harrison
Starting with in-depth interviews and explorations of the work of five collage artists, this book brings you deep into their creative processes. And you know how much we like talking about the creative process here on Layers Upon Layers, especially in our artist profiles!
I found Laurinda Bedingfield’s work especially interesting, and immediately […]

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March 13th, 2008

Book lovers! Check this out!!

Art Attack Thursday

After visiting a library in Prague that simply took their breath away, Curious Expeditions compiled a picture show that will leave you gasping! In their words:
Shocked into a library induced euphoria, Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world’s most beautiful libraries for you starting with our own pictures of […]

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February 12th, 2008

How to make a scrapbook wrap

Technique Tuesday!
Like I told you yesterday, I can’t complete this wrap until the album itself if finished, since I don’t know how thick it’s going to end up being. So what I did was to cut a piece of base fabric several inches longer than the current width of the entire album when it is […]

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February 11th, 2008

Scrapbook wrap

Last year my family and I took a wonderful trip to Guatemala to see where Nate, our son/brother had been living and working. We visited the orphanage where he was the schoolmaster and electronics fix-it guy. As it happened, Nate fell in love while he was there, with one of the daughters of the directors, […]

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January 10th, 2008

Artist Profile: Eileen Bergen

Artist: Eileen Bergen
The Artful Crafter blog
The Artful Crafter website
Eileen, how do you describe your work?
I’m an eclectic crafter/artist. I’ll try anything once. My current favorite media are digital graphics, digital photography, beaded jewelry and wire-sculpted jewelry. My website, The Artful Crafter, grew out of my desire to share the joy of crafting and teach […]

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December 31st, 2007

Love letters book

Looking for something to do with yourself now that the year is almost over?  Here’s a great project that will showcase all of your favorite correspondence from the year:
Does anyone write letters anymore? Of course they do! Even if your love letters arrived via email, this great little tutorial will show you how to make […]

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December 27th, 2007

Call for entries: Photography in Book Arts & The Book in Photography

For Photography in Book Arts, the subject matter is open and the medium is the artist book. For The Book in Photography, the medium is 2-dimensional photography with a book theme. The theme may be broad to include the book, seeking knowledge, literacy, reading and writing, communication, language.
Deadline for entries to be received: January […]

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