The background texture was made my stenciling over a large piece of lace… Heavy gel medium mixed into the paint for more texture… If you turn it upside down…. Dried orchids… Applied directly to the board with the gel medium… The long strands of her hair repeat the shape […]
Tag: mixed media
“Blue Winter” ~Painting with Quilled Snowflakes
‘Free’ Mixed-Media Butterfly Canvas
This small black 4″x 4″canvas is one of my many “tried to do something on here but it didn’t work’” canvases that I have lying around. Today it got a make-over. First, I covered it with a thin layer of fiber paste. Taking this pretty silk butterfly, I gently removed […]
Blue Butterfly Altered Book
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Ladybugs and Toadstools
These are some drawings I did recently. Not sure what to do with them yet. They were drawn with ZIG pens onto old blank book pages and then colored with pencils. I flipped through some books and found some cute phrases that went along with the drawings. Maybe I could […]
Inspired by Poe
Somerset Studio put a call out for art inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe a few months ago. I decided to try make a small art collage inspired by one of my favorite poems. “The Coliseum’ is not one of Poe’s more famous poems, but I discovered it […]
Published in Somerset Studio, March 2012
Surprised and delighted to have a piece of my mixed-media artwork featured in the new Somerset Studio. I originally made a mixed-media piece titled “Dancer in White” back in September of last year. I enjoyed showing the process photos of how it all came together. I didn’t have any plans […]
Valentine’s Day “Sew Sweet” Mini Canvas
There are so many awesome types of clay available these days. I want to try every single one. This heart was made with Sculpey’s Ultra Light, and wow, it’s so smoooooth. It feels like your working with home-made angel biscuit dough. I stuck a sewing needle through the heart and […]
White Frame with Onion Skin Heart
I brushed this little gold frame with Wicker White acrylic and then sponged over it again with Antique White. There are probably a zillion other ways to paint a gold frame white, but that’s all I did. I was throwing away some onion skins last week and noticed how pretty […]