Artist Lisa Kessler was experiencing a bout of creative block when a friend offered her some scrap lumber. She immediately envisioned the scraps as little house shapes and imagined using carving block sketches to decorate the surface of the wood! Follow Lisa’s tutorial from the May/June 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors to try out…
We’ve got something to help you beat the end-of-summer doldrums—free downloads! This month we have something really fun and different to work with: cyanotype images. These beautiful indigo blue images are created with a special photo process that uses sunlight to develop pictures, and the results are unique. Lucky for you, we’ve taken all the…
Autumn’s beautiful foliage can provide such wonderful art inspiration this time of year. In this project from our September/October 2013 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, artist and printmaker Sharon Gross demonstrates how to make nature print greeting cards using fallen leaves. These cards are fun, easy to create, and each one is totally unique.…
Inspired by many of the articles written by artists appearing in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine I created my first mixed media collage. Using a favorite art medium, pen & ink, I combined it with colored pencil, printed papers, newspaper, acrylic paint with crayon thus creating layers of color and texture.
This piece began with a paste paper experiment of acrylics and liquid wallpaper paste. The layers of colors suggested a garden scene to me, so I made a foam stamp and printed it with water soluble ink. I added paint marker and prismacolor details and then I hand-stitched with pearl cotton and machine stitched with…
Cynthia "Thea" Bendix "Canemah Studios" "Scissors" silhouette is a mixed media collage combining elements from printmaking (the scissors), stamping (the sun) with vintage & my handmade papers collage. I'm uploading it for the "Sweet Silhouette" reader challenge.
This morning I started with blank paper, some printing inks, and a Gelli Arts gelatin printing plate, and within an hour I had some pretty cool monoprints I could use for backgrounds in collage. "Green Tea" by Cate Prato using monoprinting techniques. As the theme of this blog is "tea," I thought I would use…
I carved this piece out of a 12" x 12" piece of linoleum. It depicts a bowl of pan dulce (Mexican sweet bread) that I had on my kitchen counter. The bread is long gone, but I was able to capture its image before it was gone.
