Michelle G Brown | Mixed Media Art

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Family Capers has showcased two articles by Michelle:

Making Christmas Cards with the kids

Dispelling the “I can’t do it” Myths of Creativity

Come and have a look!

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Family Capers is an interactive and supportive community network, promoting fun and encouraging social aspects for you and your family. We are all about getting the most from family life and offering support the families in our community.

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Getting Started with Image Transfers by Cyndi Lavin

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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.

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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:

You can find even more ideas for using transfers and other mixed media art techniques by visiting Mixed Media Artist.
Copyright 2010 Cyndi Lavin. Not to be reprinted, resold, or redistributed for profit. May be printed out for personal use or distributed electronically provided that entire file, including this notice, remains intact.
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MMAT05 – Edging and Sponging

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Edging and Sponging are the focus of the Mixed Media Art Technique tutorial.

The Pop Quiz invited you to study the 6 ATCs and determine which technique was used with which element.

ATC 1 was assembled without any of the edging or sponging techniques being used.

ATC 2 has had the background scrap of text sponged, using the stippling brush and Sepia ink.

ATC 3 has the image edged with the direct-to-paper technique.

ATC 4 has the word “creativity” distressed with a craft knife and had a little sepia ink added to highlight the edges and lift it up from the background.

ATC 5 has been sponged around across the top of the card (it is very faint and hard to see in this photo). The edge has also been framed using a Kryon Copper leafing pen.

ATC 6 has had all of these techniques used, as outlined above for each element. Bringing together a combination of these edging and sponging techniques gives the ATC added character and finish.

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I hope you have enjoyed revising these simple but very effective techniques.

Happy Creating!

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Finding your Creativity with Andrea

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Hello there. My name is Andrea, I am a Creativity Goddess over at ABCcreativity and I’ve been invited to talk to you today about where creativity comes from.

The way I see it, that is pretty simple. Creativity comes from us. It’s who we are.

Human beings are so creative we are practically magic.

I see creativity as your inner wisdom, intuition, authenticity, uniqueness and passion all rolled into one. The way I see it, you can’t not be creative.

How did you choose what to wear this morning? That was a creative decision.

How you raise your children. How you do your job. How you do your hair. How you manage your finances. How you nurture your relationships. These are all creative acts.

remember: there is creative genius inside you (let it out)Every single one of us is so enormously creative. Everything we do is so dripping with creative energy that we don’t even notice it anymore. But as children we noticed it. We appreciated it. We reveled in it.

As adults, when we don’t feel creative it’s not because our creativity isn’t there. It’s because we’re not appreciating it. We’re not reveling in it. We’re ignoring it.

And the option is always there for us to go back to that appreciation. To open the door to our creativity and discover what we can really do. To discover who we really are.

I’m sure you’ve seen this in your mixed media explorations. Ideas come to you. You feel good. You feel strong. You feel empowered. Something about playing with creativity just feels so right.

It’s healing.

It feels good and right and healing because what you are doing, in opening up to your creativity, is opening up to your inner wisdom, intuition, authenticity, uniqueness and passion.

You are opening up to who you really are.

You are a creative genius.

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