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When it comes to Mother's Day gifts, I have always most enjoyed the handmade, heartfelt ones: poems, drawings, pinch pots, and the like. Even as my girls have grown into adulthood, I've made it clear I prefer something from the heart over something from the mall. (My birthday is a different story...
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Artists have been painting fabric for ages-what else are oil pigments on stretched canvas? But painting on commercial or vintage fabric? Mixing in paper, stitch, glue, photo transfers, and more? That's mixed-media painting. You can use oil pastels, watercolors, spray inks and dyes, or acrylic paint...
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Earlier this week, I wrote about how to turn your doodles into personal imagery you can use again and again in your art. That got me thinking about another way you can reuse a drawing, doodle, or an entire collage or painting: image transfers . Drawings printing on Rub-onz image-transfer film, then applied...
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Taking a new look While walking in New York City recently, I realized the dichotomy of the dirt and filth of the streets, buildings, bridges, and sidewalks against the beauty of the city when taken as bigger chunks. This is a photo I shot while walking back to the subway in Brooklyn. I love the play...
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I’m feeling super saturated today! I can feel spring right around the corner. I can buy three bunches of brilliant daffodils at the supermarket for just $6. And I am looking forward to wearing my fun green-feathered fascinator on St. Paddy’s day. No, everything is not all perfect and rosy in my life...
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Being blocked when you’re wanting to be creative is a real downer. It’s like your pencils and pens are ignoring your passionate pleas. How do you get through it? One of my favorite ways is by accepting a challenge. Just agreeing to accept a challenge starts to change my brain chemistry. I start to go...
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Groundhog’s day is just around the corner (like tomorrow!), but I have no photos of groundhogs in my stash. What’s a girl to do? Improvise! I am NOT a big fan of the movie “Groundhog’s Day”. I find it frustrating. But I can see why the premise is appealing. SPOILER ALERT! (For those of you who have not...
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Well, friends, we celebrated 12-12-12, we survived the Mayan apocalypse, and we're on the verge of a New Year. (Depending on where you are when you read this, the New Year may have already arrived.) Lisa Thorpe combines stamping techniques with stenciling to create a graphic design. Personally, I'm...
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Check out this little fungi! This image was captured at a county fair in the fungus collection. I got lots of other photos of mushrooms of all different shapes and sizes but this ‘thing’ really intrigued me. It was about one foot around and I really wanted to reach out and touch it—but I refrained. I...
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When you want to apply a drawing or painting to fabric and you don't have the resources to print your own fabric, what do you do? Use an image transfer technique . Quilt derived from art journal pages with stitching, image transfers, and paint, by Jane LaFazio. Image transfers can be accomplished...
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Cate Prato
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7 Nov 2012
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Filed under: collage, mixed media, assemblage, Cloth Paper Scissors, encaustic, fabric art, image transfer, art journaling, paper art, Mixed Media Art Techniques, Stamping Techniques, Mixed Media Materials
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You make me feel like sketchin’, gonna sketch the night away. You make me feel like sketchin’. I feel like sketchin’—ooh, sketchin’—ooh. Sketch the night away . . . Goodness! My apologies. I got a little carried away there. I’m not sure what this cabbage posseses to make me feel like pulling out my art...
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How do you start on a canvas? Do you work from white or do you like to cover the background with black gesso or bright bits of color? Do you like to collage images on the background first? Getting started can be so difficult. Especially if you like working with digital collage . Having a background like...
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Welcome to Day 4 of Encaustic Week! Today, with the help Michelle Belto's book Wax and Paper Workshop: Techniques for Combining Encaustic Paint and Handmade Paper , I'll show you how to add a transfer to your encaustic art . 'Going in Circles' encaustic art with transfer by Michelle Belto...
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Whether you make journal pages to create art, to experiment, or a little of both, it's fun to make image transfer techniques part of the mix. Image transfers can give your journal pages depth and interest whether you use them in layered backgrounds or as focal points. Dea Fischer used three image...
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My grandmother was one of those people who saved wrapping paper and ribbons to use another day. I knew she did it to be thrifty, but I still mentally rolled my eyes every Christmas and birthday as she warned us not to ball up the papers and throw them away. Nikki Smith's custom digital art tissue...