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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Archive for the ‘Paper’ Category

June 3rd, 2008

Digital manipulation with a torn paper landscape

Technique Tuesday!

Create a torn paper landscape with the colors and papers of your choice.
Scan it and open the file in Photoshop or your favorite image editing software. All of the images that you want to use together will need to be saved at the same resolution, so pick your size and deal with your […]

By Cyndi -- 12 comments

June 2nd, 2008

Time and Tide

Make Art Monday!

Time and tide wait for no man.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Remember that torn paper landscape I made about a month ago? Here it is!
Tags: Collage, Digital Art, Mixed Media, paper arts

By Cyndi -- 4 comments

May 27th, 2008

Mixing digital and physical art

Technique Tuesday!
Materials and Tools:
Decorative papers
Heavy piece of watercolor paper for foundation
Exacto knife, straight edge, and cutting board
Matte medium
Foam brush
Waxed paper

Create a geometric background by carefully cutting papers and gluing into place on a foundation piece of watercolor paper.
Cover the piece with waxed paper and weight it until completely dry.

Scan your piece and make multiple copies […]

By Cyndi -- 12 comments

May 26th, 2008

Cherry Blossoms

Make Art Monday!

Tags: Collage, Digital Art, Mixed Media, Paper, Photography, photoshop

By Cyndi -- 4 comments

May 14th, 2008

J. Hewit & Sons newsletter available online

Skin Deep, the biannual newsletter by one of the premiere suppliers to the book making and book binding industries, is now available for you to read online. The spring issue includes study opportunities and new products.
Tags: Book Arts, book-binding, handmade-books

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

May 13th, 2008

How to make a torn paper landscape collage

Technique Tuesday!
These simple collages make excellent backgrounds for either more physical collage work or for digital work on a scanned copy.
Materials & Tools:
Large sheet of heavy watercolor paper
Selection of colored and decorative papers, stock paper weight
Matte medium
Foam brush
Waxed paper
Exacto knife
Clear plastic measure
Cutting board

Tear stock papers into uneven strips and arrange in an overlapped pattern.
When the […]

By Cyndi -- 12 comments

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 […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

May 8th, 2008

Artist Profile: Elis Cooke

Artist: Elis Cooke
Business name: Into the Blystic
Location: Tara, Ontario, Canada
Website & Blog:
Into the Blystic
Into the Blystic blog
Elis, how do you describe your work?
Loosely I would describe my work as mixed media. I am especially focused on acrylic painting, making textural works with handmade paper, monoprinting and bookarts. My business name is a reminder […]

By Cyndi -- 5 comments

May 5th, 2008

Look at this adorable photo journal!

Once more, one of the projects posted here has managed to distract a dear reader from what she was supposed to be doing… :-)

Timaree, who writes Freebirdsings sent me pictures of this adorable photo journal that she made after she read a post on making them. Here’s what she said about it:
The one […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2008

Don’t forget about Collage Mania!

The big sale, organized by Virginia Spiegel, will be taking place on May 5 and 6!!
Tags: Collage, Mixed Media

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

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