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Mixed Media Artist – Francesca Albini

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Today we have Mixed Media Artist Francesca Albini sharing two of her journal layouts.  Our Mixed Media Art community is a diverse bunch and over the last 5 months we have shared work from all around the world. Each artist has had different interests, reasons why they create and a wide range of skills.

Let’s let Francesca tell us her story…

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I am a visual artist using pretty much every media and tool that exist, from digital painting to 35mm plastic cameras. I especially love using children’s art supplies and anything colourful and interesting. I collage, paint, draw, photograph, to record feelings and memories of places and emotions. I’m Italian, I live in London, UK, with my husband, and I love travelling to warm countries, deserts and oceans.

I’d like to share with you 2 pages from my journals. The first one is a junk journal. I find them a great way to record my travels . I bring with me a hole puncher and some hinged rings, then I collect whatever scrap paper I find, leaflets, pages from books, anything relevant to my travel and I work on that, adding my own photographs, glazes of paint, and text.

Mixed Media Art journal

The second picture is from an altered book. I like creating landscapes with layered found paper and tissue paper. I paint white tissue paper to give it a feel of a grass field or rocks, then rip it with my hands and laminate it with PVC glue.

Mixed Media Art Journal

To see more of Francesca’s  artistic endevours, you can visit her blog: http://franjournal.blogspot.com/

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Thank you for sharing your work with us, Francesca.

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Mixed Media Artist – Trudy Thayer

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Our Mixed Media Art community is a diverse bunch and this week we turn to the fabrics side of Mixed Media Art and Trudy Thayer shares her “Sandwich art” with us.

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Trudy Thayer is a 65 year old mom, gramma, veteran, and late-in-life college with a BFA  specialty in graphic design. She lives in Vancouver, Washington and loves the area and the artistic stimulus that abounds there.

mixed media fabric

“I call this project my sandwich art”, says Trudy, “I put together as many pieces of material I want, usually 5-6. Then randomly stitch all over it. No pattern; then I cut out down to a particular layer to expose different patterned material, and clip 1/4″ from the seam, cut to fringe.”

“Then embellish to my hearts’  content. I can make these personal, like for birthdays, or scenic, just about any theme I want. I have a lot of fun with these and the recipients love them. Fun, it’s all fun.”

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It certainly does look like fun! Thanks Trudy to sharing your sandwich art with us.
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Mixed Media Artist – Debbie Davis

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Our Mixed Media Art community is a diverse bunch; from all around the world, with different interests and reasons why we create and a wide range of skills. We love featuring a wide range of mixed media artist. Debbie Davis has come over to play with us this week. She shares her vintage children’s dress pattern on clayboard piece with us.

I’ll let Debbie tell us about herself…

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I’ve always loved art and have been creating arts & crafts off and on for many years.  My most favorite childhood Christmas present was a little box of art supplies.  I recently discovered beeswax and really enjoy working with it because it’s a natural, non-toxic product and it smells wonderful.

I live in Morton, Illinois (USA) not too far from the house I grew up in.  I’ve been happily married for 31 years and have a daughter, son and 2 wonderful grandchildren. Besides art, I love to work in my flower gardens and read.

I think what I love most about mixed media art is that you don’t have to be an expert at anything to create beautiful art.  It is a great way to recycle found objects. Art is such a wonderful stress reliever.  I just wish I had more time to play!

Recently I was shopping at a Mission Mart looking for items to use in collage art.  I was inspired by a vintage children’s dress pattern I spotted in the store.  I made a collage using beeswax to adhere some of the pattern tissue and pattern package to a claybord.  I painted the board with beeswax and then added scrapbook paper, pattern tissue and part of the pattern envelope by painting them on with beeswax and fusing each layer together with a heat gun and mini iron.  I stamped a flower onto tissue paper and adhered it to the collage with beeswax along with some buttons and fabric trim.

Mixed Media Encaustic clayboard

I don’t have a blog but have been thinking about starting one.  Thanks so much for the invitation to guest post.  I really look forward to receiving your emails and love the inspiration I get from them.

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Thanks for sharing your gorgeous artwork with us. I love the vintage dress pattern with the beeswax – they go so well together. And I’m sure everyone here will encourage you to start your own blog to allow you to share more of you work with the Mixed Media Art community.

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Mixed Media Artist – Cynthia Stevens

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Our Mixed Media Art community is a diverse bunch; from all around the world, with different interests, reasons why we create and a wide range of skills.  Today we have Cynthia Stevens over to play and share two of her pieces.

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Cynthia lives in  Utah, USA, but describes herself as a “transplanted NYer”.  She is a teacher and writer, and has a BA in Theater, with two grown children and two mini-schnauzers.

“I am newish to mixed media art, especially found and altered art,” Cynthia says, “I love eclectic choices in music and reading, including British/Shakespearean, fairies, Broadway and E.E. Cummings”.  Ruben, Isabel Toledo, and the late Alexander McQueen can also be counted amongst the things she loves and finds inspiration in.

Mixed Media art collage

“Purple Picture” is from Cynthia’s first altered book [class taught by artist Teresa Flowers].  It’s made from an old “Datebook”, kept for quotes and illustrations.  Cynthia started with torn and wrinkled tissue paper for the background, using Mod Podge to glue it all down.  Embellishments include ribbon, multi-colored lace, a vintage postage stamp, torn picture and bit of art from copyright-free sources with some silver ink and sprinkles of silver glitter.

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Mixed Media Art Collage

“Time” picture has been added to the same book as the “Purple Picture”.  This reflects Cynthia’s thoughts of the passing of time.  Some parts, like the bicycle man, were already on the page.  The old Italian Renaissance building is a clear print from a permanent print in public domain.  Collage pieces from public domain, plus craft stick-ons. Only glue was Mod Podge.  All page edges in this book were cut to look ripped by craft scissors.

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Thanks so much for stopping by, Cynthia and sharing your altered datebook with us.

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