Creating in the Joy of Art Studio
This is a demonstration of me creating my art dolls and angels out of "green" material Creating Art Dolls from Pipe Cleaners, fibers, Beads and found Objects
Tag: Fiber Art
How a "Creativity-Killer" Inspired This Hot New Monoprinting Technique
While new ideas come to fruition every day, those of us in the art world know that brand new art products don’t hit the shelves as often. That’s why it’s so exciting to see that where there’s a need, there’s often a create way to fulfill that need. When Joan Bess realized that there was…
Deck the Halls with Handmade Mixed-Media Art Houses
My house is full of houses, and never more than during the holidays. From the vintage paper village houses lit up on the tree to the ceramic Dickens village my husband and I started collecting the day after we were married. A sampling of the mixed-media houses from the Home Sweet Home reader challenge, featured…
Design Your Own Mixed-Media Art and Fiber Retreat
If you've ever been to an art retreat, you know how nourishing it can be. There you are, with a bunch of other artists at different levels, learning from the instructor, each other, and yourself. Mixed-media fiber art by Natalya Aikens, from Texture Transformation on Craft Daily. My only regret about these mixed-media art events…
Migration of Mermaids
Wax resist on linen. Painted with mixed dyes. Pieced and sewn.
New: Four Free Techniques for Making Three-Dimensional Art
Everyone wants their art to stand out, right? Well, there’s no easier way that by going 3-D. Take your mixed-media art into the third dimension with this new eBook from Cloth Paper Scissors Today: Three-Dimensional Art Sculpture: Free Mixed-Media Sculpture and Paper-Mache. In it, we’ve brought together four techniques for three-dimensional art using paper-mache ideas, clay sculpture,…
Felt Flower Hat
How I spent my week: designing and creating a donation piece for an auction to benefit Therapeutic Horse-riding and Youth Outreach Programs. This is my first attempt at hat decorating! Traditional millinery technique dictates that ornamentation is sewn, not glued, into place. Lots and lots and lots of teen-tiny stitches, including seed bead embellishment. Done!!!
Create a Newsprint Transfer for Fabric Art
One of the best classes I’ve ever taken was my one-day soy wax fabric art session with Jeannie Palmer Moore last summer. Detail of ‘Latte’ quilt by Jeannie Palmer Moore. She used a colored newsprint transfer for the “image” under the saucer. Jeannie is a fiber artist who uses all kinds of surface design techniques…
Delta Dawn (Mini collage)
This lady is all dressed up and waiting for her lover; she is made from a resin mold and dressed in cheesecloth, sitting on a rust-dyed fabric 4×4 and surrounded by a melange of blue fibers.
Eyelash Fun
ACT. Fabric, fiber and thread painting.