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Hey Ho: Another Mixed Media Encaustic Birthday Card
I made this card for my husband’s recent birthday. The support’s a 7″x5″ canvas board. Again, I’m experimenting with collage, modelling paste, shellac, encaustic and glitter and sandpaper and acrylic medium, and, and, and … There are several layers to this, each mauled to within an inch of its life with one instrument of torture or another. The image is the boat we’re doing up (a 1970s Albin Vega). The boat in reality looks a lot better than on this card as we’ve almost finished stripping the layers of antifouling paint from the hull. It’s not a job I want to do again in a tearing hurry and that’s a fact. Continue reading
Art in Progress: Carrier
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Tagged Art, Art Reviews, Digital Art, Mixed media, photography, Visual arts
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Quantum Creativity
You have to image hunt continually as an imagesmith because you’re constantly using up your image supply. I strive for an abundance of images. Aside from my digital image stocks, I’ve an ever-growing collection of transparent presentation-type books where I keep images I like. Before throwing out a magazine, for instance, I cut out any images or pages of images I like and slip them into the sleeves of these books. I keep the books at hand to flick through. Feed myself on the images. And it’s an image I pulled from a magazine in 1998 ( Art in America, probably) that brought me to the above video. Continue reading
Art in Progress
I’ve started a suite of mixed media works on canvas, using my newly-renovated garden as subject matter and outdoor studio. Here’s a section of the first.
I’m using a technique I developed while doing work for Arthouse Co-op’s Sketchbook Projects. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mixed Media, Painting
Tagged Art, Canada, Digital Printmaking, London, media collage, Mixed media, Painting, Visual arts
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MMATC Group Rainbow Accordion Book: Orange
This fabulous handmade card dropped recently into my post box. It’s by Alison Richards, a fellow participant in the MMATC (Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards) Rainbow Accordion Book card swap Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mail Art
Tagged Artist Trading Card, Fabric Paper, Fine art, Lady Mayoress, Mail Art and Artistamps, Mixed media, Post Office, Visual arts
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MMATC Group Rainbow Accordion Book: Red
MMATC (Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards) is a Yahoo! group of artists based in the UK. I was pleased to be accepted into the group late last year, though I’ve only just this year been able to make my debut, joining the group’s Rainbow Accordion Book swap. Continue reading
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Tagged Artist Trading Card, Fabric Paper, Fine art, Mail Art and Artistamps, Mixed media, Visual arts
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 