Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

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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July 7th, 2008

Dahlia

Make Art Monday!

I first mentioned the idea of using waxed paper to do image transfers in the spring: Golden’s came out with three new digital grounds which allows for inkjet prints and transfers to be brighter, clearer…well, and just plain possible on more surfaces than ever before. I used the Digital Ground White, and […]

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April 15th, 2008

Image transfers by contact printing

The fabulous blog, Craft Tutorials, has provided a step-by-step tutorial on making contact prints. As many different types of image transfers as we’ve discussed here, this is one that I missed! It’s simple, and just plain brilliant! Thanks Donna :-)
Tags: Collage, Digital Art, image-transfer, Mixed Media, Photography, tutorial

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