Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

April 30th, 2008

Book Review: Mixed Emulsions

Mixed Emulsions by Angela Carwright
The subtitle of this marvelous book is “Altered art techniques for photographic imagery.” And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what’s included here. Cartwright shares dozens of ways to alter your actual photos through different media and by utilizing different substrates for your work. She covers tinting with oils […]

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April 29th, 2008

Make your own photo journals

Check out this cute video tutorial! Judy teaches us how to make a very simple style of journal, using two 4×6 inch photos as the covers. I’m sure you could substitute other sizes of photos if you’d like. This is a real quick and easy gift idea, and also a great way to use some […]

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April 18th, 2008

The Great Eye of Sauron

This is one of those things I share with you simply because I think it’s so darned cool, and mixed media artists need to look at cool stuff. No other reason. You can read the rest of the article here at The Register.
Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center […]

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April 17th, 2008

Broken camera photos

Art Attack Thursday!

Most of the time, a broken digital camera is only worthy of the trash heap (or of recycling into some cool assemblage, of course!). But every once in awhile, a camera comes along which will still take pictures…

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Tags: Digital Art, Photography

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April 16th, 2008

Call for entries: Life Images

Life Images is a photography publication by Stampington & Company. The next deadline is June 15, 2008.  There are some specific challenges for this issue, including infrared photography and the theme play.  The quote for play is an oldie but goodie: “We do not stop playing because we grow old.  We grow old […]

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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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April 14th, 2008

Two pieces in Somerset Digital Studio magazine!

Make Art Monday!

I sent these pieces in as submissions for the brand new Digital Studio magazine so long ago, and I never heard back. So imagine my surprise when I found them in the premiere issue! A good surprise :-)

Daylight Fades
 

In the Shadow
I posted a tutorial last year on how to make digital collages like […]

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March 31st, 2008

Second issue of Life Images is available

My copy came the other day, and I had almost forgotten about it since it takes months to put each one together. One of my photos was accepted and appear in this issue:

It’s another gorgeous issue, but can I confess something? I’m a teensy bit disappointed about how tiny my image was reproduced in the […]

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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 25th, 2008

Making a layered digital collage

Technique Tuesday!
I’ve previously shared my technique for creating digital collage using scanned background papers. For this specific collage, I used four layers:

The background layer is a piece of watercolor paper textured with gel medium and cheesecloth that I painted and scanned. I altered the colors in Photoshop to suit this particular piece.
The middle […]

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