Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

August 19th, 2008

Mixed media piece with watercolor background

Technique Tuesday!
It struck me after I had fooled around and painted the watercolor background paper, that it would be a really good backdrop for some of my pictures of Venice. I’ve been sorting through them, and I particularly love the doors and windows, weathered and peeling as some of them are. So I […]

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August 12th, 2008

Introduction to basic stamping!

June Campbell has put together a couple of videos which are on her blog, Scrapping By Design, to help beginners learn how to do basic rubber stamping, masking, and coloring. It’s so annoying to buy some supplies and then to realize that you don’t know what to do with them! Thank you June […]

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August 12th, 2008

Mounting the beaded postcards

Technique Tuesday!

I used 12″x24″ gallery-wrapped Frederix canvases to mount my Bead Journal Pages. Each page is 6″x4″, so this left plenty of space around each.
Materials and Tools
3 gallery-wrapped canvases
Golden’s acrylic paints
Sponges
Waxed paper
Beading thread
Beading needles

Arrange beaded cards as they will be on the canvases. Mine are arranged by month: otherwise I may have grouped […]

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August 5th, 2008

Making an abstract collage that focuses on shape and repetition

Technique Tuesday!
Cosmic Flowers is a fantasy abstract that I created when I was fooling around with repetition of shapes. I would recommend reviewing my post on creating an abstract, where I quoted Nita Leland’s explanation that the elements and principles of design are what an abstract is really “about”. To add a bit […]

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July 30th, 2008

Bookbinding with Peter Baumgartner

Peter is an extremely generous man. Despite his world reknown in the bookbinding world, he has decided to film a video series and make it available on his website, Atelier fur Papierdesign.
Navigating is a little tricky if you don’t know German, but Peter’s pictures and illustrations are so clear that you don’t have to […]

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July 29th, 2008

What is a PocketMod?

Since we been talk off and on about organization around here, I thought I should make you aware of an online freebie you can print out for yourself You’re going to love these, and you’re probably going to get addicted to them! Take one ordinary sheet of paper, visit the PocketMod website, select […]

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July 22nd, 2008

Messing around with curves

Technique Tuesday!

Bear Lake Trail
There are only a few steps used in making a surreal landscape like this, but that doesn’t mean that it’s fast and easy! I spent more time on this piece than on many that have far more steps. Take you time and play around…it’ll be worth it!

Open your original image […]

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July 17th, 2008

Go visit Mel Stampz…now!

Art Attack Thursday!

For a plethora of projects, all the resources and all the steps detailed, visit Mel Stampz! Mel describes herself as “totally shamelessly addicted to stamping and my favourite way to share that is blogging. I love reading about stamping on the blogs of the many talented people who share. I wanted to be […]

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July 15th, 2008

Painting your summer sandals

Technique Tuesday!

The Owl and the Pussycat
Acrylic paints, a black fine-tipped marker, and clean sandals are all you need!

Choose your colors of acrylic paint: a main background color and a couple of accent colors.
Using a sponge or foam brush, paint all the leather surfaces of the straps with your main color. Mine was turquoise. […]

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July 8th, 2008

Waxed paper transfer collage

Technique Tuesday!
Here’s the image that I started with for this piece:

It wasn’t high resolution or anything: just a pretty picture. I used Golden’s Digital Ground White, and stroked it onto a piece of waxed paper, adding a few layers until the piece was covered where I planned to print. The image printed out […]

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