The Fall 2018 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors is all about recycling materials for mixed-media art, which got me thinking about making custom stencils and masks from repurposed items. The great thing about custom stencils is that they can be tailored to your project and your style. Today I’ll show you a few easy ideas…
Today we get a look inside the studio of Doreen Kassel, author of the new book Lush Life Creative Coloring: Organic Worlds to Explore, Color and Embellish. Doreen’s book goes beyond most coloring books to include fantastic mixed-media techniques for enhancing the pages, such as using stencils, creating a wash, etching patterns, and more, along…
Learn how you can use kitchen staples such as salt and cinnamon to add texture and color to your mixed-media art!
Artist and author Margaret Peot shares a demo on how to make your own stencils in this free online excerpt from “Stencil Craft.”
Here at Cloth Paper Scissors, we love to have fun just as much as we love to create unique mixed-media art. And even better, we like to have fun with art! So, we dreamed up something fun to incorporate into our favorite spooky holiday, that shows off just how much we love it.
We’re all well acquainted with creating textured art, and with using stencils in art. But have you ever combined the two? I’m a fan of art that looks juicy with paint strokes and has peaks and ridges that beg the viewer to touch them. That combination sometimes makes the artist’s vision seem more real to…
Is it possible to have too many mixed-media collage techniques in your bag of tricks? I don’t think so. Especially when it comes to backgrounds for collage. Collage art background made with stencils and magazine pages. By Mary Beth Shaw. The technique below, from the book Stencil Girl: Mixed Media Techniques for Making and Using…
There are many ways to add background interest, and one of my favorites lately is via art stencils. Here’s how.
Hand printed water-based monoprint on 100% cotton rag paper
Hand- printed mixed media monoprint on 100% cotton rag paper using water-based inks
