Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

May 12th, 2008

Torn paper landscape collage

Make Art Monday!
A super-easy background or perhaps even a finished collage on it’s own! Well, mine isn’t finished, but yours could be if you made it more artfully than I did ;-)

Mine is intended to be the background for a future piece, one that I’m sure I’ll be sharing here sometime in the future!
Tomorrow, for […]

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May 5th, 2008

Leather-look felt

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A few weeks ago, I showed you a necklace that I made:

A Stitch in Time
The background fabric for this bead-embroidered piece is actually felt. When you see it close up, it looks for all the world like rough leather (moreso in real life than in my picture!). Although I’m not philosophically opposed to […]

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April 28th, 2008

Adorable teacup candles

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Little Jenny C (aka LJC) has created a Kodak gallery slide show of the steps she takes to create the cutest teacup candles I’ve ever seen. Well, actually, they’re the only teacup candles I’ve ever seen! I’m making these for gifts next year :-)
Tags: candles, Mixed Media

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April 23rd, 2008

Collage techniques

We’ve explored lots and lots of fun collage techniques here on Layers Upon Layers. I figured it was past time to compile some of the methods. This post doesn’t include all fo the techniques like image transfers and making background papers…those posts have been compiled elsewhere!  You can always find an up-to-date list […]

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April 21st, 2008

Now, Not Later

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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 14th, 2008

My most recent mixed media jewelry

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I don’t always post these pieces here on Layers Upon Layers. Most of you know that I also write the Jewelry & Beading blog here at the b5Media network, and that’s where all of these usually appear. But I couldn’t resist sharing some of the lastest pieces with you, because they’re really […]

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March 31st, 2008

Second issue of Life Images is available

My copy came the other day, and I had almost forgotten about it since it takes months to put each one together. One of my photos was accepted and appear in this issue:

It’s another gorgeous issue, but can I confess something? I’m a teensy bit disappointed about how tiny my image was reproduced in the […]

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March 31st, 2008

Cream of the Crop

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A paper weaving, featuring strips from CD covers and inserts, attached to 140 lb watercolor paper.

Tags: paper-art

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March 24th, 2008

Unto Us

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I truly hope that no one finds this offensive! Around Christmas this past year, I was really missing my son. He was my first born, and his birthday is December 29. Now that he’s a married man, we can’t expect to see him every Christmas anymore, but this was our first time without […]

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March 10th, 2008

A geometric collage from textured papers

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Back in January, I shared a batch of collage papers with you that I made which stressed the textures. They used a limited number of colors so that they’d all work together well in future projects. Well, the time has come! I decided that I wanted to do a bit of an experiment […]

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