Tag: Mixed Media Original

Time's Tale

This is part of a Time Art Series each having a clock part piece involved somehow.  I fancy this one because I love the clock part in it.  Materials include various paints, papers, natural found objects, and other refurbished, recycled objects.  I find having a theme which I can create a series from helps me…

Gelli Prints Collage

By Deborah A. Pierro – This is on canvas. First I applied gesso to the canvas. Then I added three gelli plate prints with gel medium, putting the image of a woman in the center and painting over them with gel medium – I did the prints on white tissue paper. Then I painted on…

Valentine mixed media

This winter I have been busy happily painting and stamping collage papers, always brightens a dreary day! For this Valentine piece I used acrylic paints, oil pastels, ink pencils, stamps, and stencils to complete a background for my message of "love".

Rooster Collage

By Deborah A. Pierro – Materials: old board with hanging chain; mod podge, heavily texturized; masking tape embellishments; photo of rooster that I painted on a t-shirt; various colors of acrylic paint; metallic copper alcohol ink; and, of course, Mod Podge to seal it! Note: Today I replaced the original photo with this photo because…

Purple Explosion

By Deborah A. Pierro – Four separate art pieces glued together with tacky glue Materials: manila folders; heavy lavender paper; netting; pieces of crocheted doily; tissue paper; sticker; various colors of acrylic paints; plastic fork; dry brush strokes; Mod Podge

Mixed Media glittery collage

I started out painting a scenic flower garden, but didn't get very far when I decided to start glueing dryer sheets, music sheets, old dictionary paper, gauze, tissue paper and paper towels spray inked from previous art work. After everything was glued, i put a little bit of glitter on it & loved the outcome,…

American Flag

American Flag is a mixed media collage on a 24x24x1.5 gallery wrapped canvas frame.  It is made using vintage, patriotic sheet music, vintage Americana memorabilia, vintage dictionary clips all pertaining to America and a few pieces of scrap craft papers and acrylics. The flag portion was them coated with a faux encaustic finish and topped…

Beauty in Color Collage

By Deborah Pierro – acrylic paints; flowers cut out from manila folders, painted, and hand sewed on; woman that i drew, then cut out and glued on; papers created from Julie Balzer's peacock stencils and glued on; a doily behind the woman; paint-created finger prints; and fork marks. Check out my blog at http://jtdebs-studio.blogspot.com/.

The Grand Tour: One Small Step

I've been working on a series called The Grand Tour for a while now. It began as a way to showcase the hand-painted, fashion plates found in 19th century women's magazines such as Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's. As the series has progressed, the women have become more daring – venturing further away from the requisite stops…