Jenny Doh and the creative team over at CRESCEDoh have put together this fantastic 6-week online workshop entitled Crafting My Best Life…
You need to sign up by Monday 13th September, 2010.
This will surely inspire you…
Happy creating.
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The Serendipity Technique is easily mastered and is lots of fun. The only problem I have is deciding how small a piece is too small to throw out, because this techniques will use all of your small and left over pieces. How your initial collage goes together is not an important part of this technique; it is the cutting and then rearranging of each square that adds the charm to each piece.
1. Collect together a background sheet (this one is pre-painted in red, left over from doing the credit card technique) and similar colour scraps.
Mixed media art scraps
2. Tear them into interesting shapes and glue onto the background. I used a glue stick.
3. Stamp shapes onto the collage background
4. Cut collage into strips. To make this simple, use the ruler width or lines on the cutting mat to cut them, rather than measuring the strips too accurately. Take care if using a paper cutter if your collage is thick in places, as it may damage your cutter.
5. Cut strips into squares, again using the ruler width or lines onto cutting mat to cut them at the same spacing. You will have lots of colourful squares.
6. Now you can turn all of these squares into cards or add them onto other forms of mixed media art. Some of these were edged with black ink or layered onto darker card to highlight the squares.
Like any of these techniques, have a play round with them – cut bigger squares or smaller squares, use your kids artwork or turn a background you don’t like into an entirely new piece of art.
Happy creating!
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The MMA team is pleased to introduce Cyndi from Mixed-Media-Artist.com, who has offered us some assistance to get started with including images into our mixed media art pieces.
Getting Started with Image Transfers by Cyndi Lavin
There are so many different ways to transfer images to your collages, altered books, and other mixed media projects, and sometimes it seems overwhelming. Every artist has a favorite method or two, and I thought I would share the 7 methods that I like the best.
Before we get to it though, why would you want to use an image transfer rather than simply cutting and pasting an image into your work? Well, several reasons spring immediately to mind, and I’ll bet there are more that I just haven’t thought of yet!
First, sometimes you might want that irregular, almost see-through quality that a transfer has. Instead of hard sharp edges, transfer edges are often imperfect, and the image itself is also imperfect, exactly the look that you might be going for.
Second, using a transfer allows you to preserve your original, an especially important aspect if you are using priceless family photos. You can scan or copy your original, and then you’ll also be able to use it over and over in your work.
And third, using a transfer can allow you to integrate an image into your piece more fully, especially if you are transferring to an unusual or uneven surface.
Convinced to try transfers? Start with these:
We are most delighted to welcome Marion Wood as our first Guest Artist here at Mixed Media Art. She has created a brilliant tutorial on Embossing Resist with Paint. This technique is used to build up complex designs, colour, depth and texture to your work, by embossing an image with clear powder over pattern paper. Here we see Marion applying this technique to a greeting card, an art journal page and a scrapbooking layout.
Thanks Marion, for sharing this technique with us!
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Embossing Resist with Paint
Step 1: Use pattern paper or stamp a background image on the paper which will show through the embossed design. In the case of the Journal page (see below) the background was stamped with newspaper print (Imprint Rubber Stamps) onto bright green paper and on the scrapbook page I used the subtle pattern paper (Delish: Bistro Fresh-Entrée Reverse).
Step 2: Stamp over the background paper with a bold design with an embossing pad such as versa mark. Emboss image with clear embossing powder. I used foam letter stamps (Making Memories) for the title on the scrapbook page and water splash image (Innovative Stamp Creations) and for the Journal page I used a corner sun image (From the Garden by Fancy Pants Designs)
Step 3: Paint over the embossed image with contrasting colour and allow too dry slightly. If your paint is too thin apply a second coat. With the Scrapbook page I used the credit card technique and scraped over a number of different blue acrylic paints and spritz with water and for the Journal page I used brown acrylic paint and a brush.
Step 4: Wipe over the design with a damp cloth which will expose the embossed image. Allow to dry. Then decorate the as required. If the background paper warps too much, sit it under a heavy book overnight to flatten it out.
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Art Journal Page
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Greeting Card
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Scrapbook Layout
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Marion Wood, also known as Maz, has been interested in mixed media art, rubber stamping and scrapbooking for over 20 years but only really started to dabble 13 years ago. She used to teach cardmaking and scrapbooking and has been on design teams in the past. Her favourite things besides art and design is chocolate and reading. She lives in Wollongong with her DS and and dog and regularly attends a local stamping and scrapbooking group called the ‘Gong Rubber Bugs. You can see more of her work at http://techniquepossibilities.blogspot.com/ or contact her via maz_wood [at] yahoo [dot] com [dot] au
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Welcome to the new Mixed Media Art layout.
All of the creative techniques are still here, just use the "Topics" below or go to the "Projects" tab.
At its core, Journal Spilling is about incorporating journaling and art making into daily life, all the while encouraging a carefree, non-judgmental approach. In addition to step-by-step instruction for getting started in 25 media techniques (watercolor, resist, ink, transfers and more!), you will be guided through exercises to help with writing. The exercises are broken down into accessible parts that can be undertaken in small bits of time and are open-ended, encouraging various paths for journaling. Let go of complete control and trust the journaling process!
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