Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

June 24th, 2008

How to make paper from scraps

Joanna has offered a wonderful tutorial, complete with lots of photos for us visual types, on making paper from your scraps. Not table scraps, silly! Paper scraps that come in the mail everyday. Crafty Daisies has posted the tutorial. Love that blog! Joanna’s website is The Harding Street Assembly Lab. Great name!

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June 10th, 2008

Making an abstract collage

Technique Tuesday!
Nita Leland writes, in Creative Collage Techniques:
With nonobjective design, the picture has no apparent reference to a subject….Instead, the formal elements of design are the picture. The picture is “about” color, line, or shape without a specific realistic image to create the visual sensation.
So here’s the problem: I can’t really tell you exactly […]

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June 9th, 2008

Burst!

Make Art Monday!

Isaiah 44:21-23
“Remember these things, O Jacob,
for you are my servant, O Israel.
I have made you, you are my servant;
O Israel, I will not forget you.
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.”
Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done […]

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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April 16th, 2008

Image transfer methods

We’ve gone over a LOT of different methods for doing image transfers here on Layers Upon Layers, and I thought it might be handy to compile a list all in one place!  You can always find an up-to-date list in the Pages section in the right-hand sidebar.
Polymer medium transfer film
Paper image transfers - plain and […]

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April 9th, 2008

Creating backgrounds for artwork

Here are some of my favorite methods for creating background papers to use in mixed media art, both physical and digital!  You can find an up-to-date list of these techniques anytime by clicking on the link for Creating Backgrounds for Artwork in the sidebar under “Pages”.
A photographic collage
Multi-stamped background papers
Freezer paper background papers
Frottage background papers
Paper […]

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