Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

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 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 17th, 2007

The Library - the best mixed media art books

I’ve assembled a list of the books that I think are the best of the best in several different categories, including altered books, creativity, collage, and digital art!  The Library can also be accessed anytime through a permanent link in my blogroll.

Tags: Assemblage, bead-arts, Book Arts, book-review, Collage, Creativity, Fabric & Fiber, Mixed Media, Paper

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December 6th, 2007

Call for entries: Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Lies: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Artist Books
March 20 - April 26, 2008

23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
A national juried show of hand-made artist books exploring our innermost secrets, lies, hopes, fears and wildest confessions. Real or fiction. Storytelling or confessing. Raw and revealing or coy and concealing. This show is open to a […]

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November 29th, 2007

Found poetry in altered books

Christmas Due Date, by Sheila E Murphy
Logolalia has found poetry posted by a slew of altered book artists. Many of the participants have wonderful websites of their own, too!
Tags: altered-books, Art Communities, Book Arts, found-poetry, Mixed Media, paper arts

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November 15th, 2007

Artist Profile: Valerie Foster

Artist: Valerie Foster
Website & Blog:
Val’s Altered Heart Journey
Val’s Webshots album

How do you describe your work, Val?
I describe it as rather haphazard, or all over the map. I think I have my own style, but it’s hard for me to pin it down. Most of my art is free-style, out of my own head. […]

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