New York-based artist Dave Pollot uses all kinds of funny pop culture references to give playful new meanings to old thrift store paintings. We first
Toronto artist David Irvine paints pop culture figures such as Pac-Man and Darth Vader on to found paintings, writes Kathryn Bromwich
i have been working on SO many books lately, heaps of assemblages and lots of fabric pieces that i’ve been finding myself missing paper and paint. the sound of the brush on paper, the glide …
Traditional paintings with a contemporary twist.
Hi Crafty Friends! Today I'm sharing an altered paintbrush I made using lots of different Creative Embellishments Chipboard. I've used the f...
Take a break. Take a moment. Immerse yourself in this beautiful world of poetry created by Agnieszka Anna. Hello. Today, I'd like to present a dress that was inspired by poetry of a Polish poet, Rafał Wojaczek. Technically, this piece was very easy to make. My base for the dress is a paper mache shape formed on a Barbie doll. I used pieces of a newspaper soaked in glue to create the skirt. After the glue dried, I used gesso applied with a soft brush to fix the whole dress. When it dried and the dress was hard, I painted it with acrylic paints. Finally, I added some frills and some glimmer with this mist. For the background, I applied a thick layer of gesso on a piece of cardboard and stamped this circle shape into the gesso. When dry, I painted the background with the same paints I used for the dress. The little houses I placed on my dress I created out of thick cardboard. I glued pieces of newspaper onto them, then added some touches of white acrylic paint and distressed them with distress inks. Finally, I glued the dress onto the background with the magic glue. I hope you like my dress. Creating it was really that complicated, maybe you will give it a try and create your own? Supplies from Mixed Media Place:
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For this second mixed media assemblage canvas I decided to go with warmer colours. I really had autumn in mind whilst creating this. I picked up some long canvases at the works recently and I wanted to use them. They really do a great job of drawing someones eye from top to bottom. Especially if you add some leading lines. Here it is all finished. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I have already been tinkering with my next one. Again, any questions just ask! Always, Kass
It's a simple idea: Find some bad art, whether original or a print, for a song at a thrift store, then modify it to make, if not "better art," then at least something that's more entertaining to look at. (Is it the same thing? Yeah, that sounds like a productive argument.)
What to do with an old dry paint brush and how to recycle it to a beautiful piece of mixed media altered art
Going thrift shopping is always an adventure. You never know what you might find while digging through a bargain bin of shoes or a barrel full of backpacks and belts. If you’re lucky, you might even stumble upon a piece of artwork that’s worth displaying in your home. And even if you don’t think any of the pieces are up to par yet, you might be able to give a painting new life by adding your own flair to it.
Altered Art Prints, it's what we do best and love to do. We take old paintings, portraits, and famous works of art and modify/alter them usually in a cheeky, humorous way to bring them up to scratch for the modern interior! This portrait painting of the French King of France King Henri IV, has twisted balloon bunny rabbit ears added over the top, in super realistic altered art editing! These graffiti prints are perfect for the living room, hallway, bedroom, and more. They make amazing additions to gallery walls too!
Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Dillon paints on found objects – stuff that passes for the fabric of the modern world. Alexandra’s pictures look like details from Old Master paintings, you know, those atomically-expensive classic works hedge fund managers who value art for its exponentially growing price lend to the museum for a ticket-holders only exhibition. You … Continue reading "Artist Alexandra Dillon Paints Classic Portraits On Everyday Objects"
mixed media art assemblage canvas using acrylic paints, gilding waxes, ink sprays, texture pastes, and miscellaneous items painted altered into a collage.
Hi All! I'm thrilled to bring to you today a new VIDEO TUTORIAL using a unique elongated canvas and some really fun Dusty Attic Chipboard and Shimmerz Paints products! I've always wanted to try doing one of these long canvas's and I found myself one in a nice manageable size for my first try, this is a 4x12 inch Artist Loft Canvas that I found at my local Michaels Craft store. Here are some of the Dusty Attic products I used to create this canvas design: ~-Decorative Frame #1 ~ Nuts & Bolts, Hinges ~ Pen Nibs ~ Cogs #1 ~ Mini Cogs ~ Mini View Finders ~ Chains, Corner Flourish #3 ~ Decorative Keyhole ~ Dusty In Color Cranberry (on heart) ~ Dusty in Bloom Mini Roses I was going for a metalic/verdigris look for this one so I chose these colors and products for this project: ~ Mandarin Mai Tai Coloringz ~ Olive Branch Spritz ~ A Shade of Grey Coloringz ~ Chocolate Brownie Coloringz ~ Before the Dawn Coloringz ~ Ride the Tide Creameez ~ Miner Miner 49er Inklingz ~ Giddy about Green Inklingz I will take you through the whole process of creating this project, from making the heart centerpiece embellishment to layering on all these lovely paint products. So grab yourself a cup of coffee/or tea, relax and enjoy!.... I hope you enjoyed watching my step by step on creating this canvas! Here are a few close-ups of my page ..... Close-up of the air dry clay heart I made as centerpiece for this project as well as some of the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces I used to make up the canvas design. I added some textures with molding paste and some stencils and used the Shimmerz NEW 'Ride the Tide' Creameez and 'Giddy About Green' Inklingz with 'Miner Miner 49er' Inklingz to get the verdigris (aged metal) look. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! You can order your paint products at the Shimmerz Paint Store HERE. Remember if you would like to have a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product in the color of your choice, just put my name 'Gabrielle' in the 'Instructions to Merchant/Seller' part of your next order! xo Dusty Attic products can be ordered directly from their website (Australia) HERE, or another source in North America is at The Scrapbook Diaries HERE, Janene (owner of The Scrapbook Diaries) has recently added loads of new Dusty Attic product to her shop! xo
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2016 Topic 14: Colour Mixing Hi there, Ingrid here, sharing a few tips and tricks on colour mixing. Colour mixing can be a bit daunting, especially for beginners. There are many, many colour wheels, blog posts, books and other instructional material out there available for you to use, but until you actually give it a go and try it for yourself you will not get the hang of it. Practice makes perfect and in this case it is the only way you will learn once for all. There is a wonderful and very detailed blog post right here on the Paperartsy blog focused on the colour mixing written by Elizabeth Borer. Hat off to Elizabeth, she went into so much detail, there is no point me even going there again! I’m going to take a slightly different approach today and show you how it all works in practice and how you can create an abstract artwork with 5 of the wide range of Paperartsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paints. I prepared a canvas to show you how you can use these 5 colours in practice. Let’s start with the basic theory of colour mixing. We all love to say, ‘oh, I love the colours on your work’, but when you are referring to ‘colour’ there is more to it. For example, I love yellow. Do you know which yellow? There is more than one type of yellow. In fact, there are many. Let’s break it down a bit… There are a few aspects to consider when it comes to a COLOUR: HUE which is a name of a particular colour so when you I say I like yellow colour, I really mean yellow hue. VALUE which is a relative lightness or darkness of a colour. Imagine turning your photo into a black and white one. You will see anything from white and light grey to dark grey and black. The same applies to other hues. You can adjust value of any colour by adding white. CHROMA (also recognised as INTENSITY or SATURATION) is the purity of a colour which determines its brightness or dullness. You can adjust chroma of a colour by adding white (adjusting tint), adding gray (adjusting tone) or by adding black (adjusting shade). How many of you say ‘this is too bright, I need to tone it down’… well, what you really mean is you need to adjust chroma (tint, tone or shade of the colour). I don’t doubt that you have seen many colour wheels and it would be great for you to buy one. They are very handy. They are great if you are using true pigments also known as ‘artist paints’ where you can start with the three primaries, red, yellow and green and mix any colour you desire. But we’re not here to talk about those. So forget about the colour wheel for now, because PaperArtsy make it easy for you. They already mix and sell a huge variety of shades and tones of each colour that we really are spoilt for choice! You can find them all HERE. But what if… what if you don’t have any yet and don’t know which ones to buy first, but still wanted to use some in your artwork? I have a simple solution for you and today I want to show you how easy it is to mix your own neutral colours and various shades and tones by simply using 5 Paperarty paints. Three are very close to the three primaries, London Bus (red), Zesty Zing (yellow) and Blueberry (blue), and two are neutrals, Snowflake (white) and French Roast (grey). Here’s a basic graph of how our three equivalents to the primaries mix: You can see that each of the neutrals has a different warmth to it and this is achieved by adding more red. If you want your neutral to be earthier, add more green. If you want it cooler, simply add more blue. Easy! It is easy to adjust the value by adding white to any colour. I added Snowflake to London Bus, as shown below. Or to adjust chroma by adding a little bit of a French Roast to London Bus (we’re onto some recipe here. Now you learned the basics there is nothing stopping you. Just by mixing the three colours you already created all the colours you need for any artwork. Add more Snowflake to the neutrals you mixed up earlier and you can create skin tones. You can paint an entire landscape with rocks, mountains, grass, water, sky, flowers and anything that your imagination can produce just by following these basic rules or colour mixing. Is your colour too bright, add some French Roast. The trick is to add a tiny bit. Then more, if you need to. A little goes a long way. Is it now the right tone, but too dark? Add Snowflake to adjust value. If you keep practicing these basics you will be a pro in no time. Trick: always keep a little bit of the originally mixed colour before you add another to it. Take a little bit from it and place next to it, then mix your white or whatever else into it. Why you ask… if your new mix doesn’t work out you have the original one to use or to use as a reference when mixing more. You can also compare the two and decide what works better for your artwork. And so to my canvas: I collaged various papers, fibres, card, strings, sand and art stones, crackle pastes etc onto my canvas using a Mod Podge, white gesso and then covered everything in white gesso. I also used my favourite, Paperartsy Grunge Paste, and stamped into it whilst still wet using the gorgeous journaling stamps by Sara Naumann – Eclectica 03. I let everything to dry over night to ensure the gesso or anything else I used wouldn’t interfere with my paint. ESN03 I decided on a colour scheme and started with a basic wash. My base colour was Blueberry. By adding Snowflake, I adjusted the lightness of this colour. I applied the darker by the art stones and lighter towards the middle of the canvas which on its own created dimension. I also mixed London Bus, Zesty Zing and a small dash of Blueberry to create a brown colour. It was too warm and didn’t match my blue and grey background so I added more yellow to get an earthier look. It was too bright and needed to tone it down so I added French Roast and there it was. I was slightly diluting the colours as I went for an easy application. I needed another earthy, but slightly contrasting colour so I added a bit of French Roast to Zesty Zing and got a nice dull, almost grey yellow colour which was perfect as a source of light in my blue and grey artwork. It was a nice touch, but not too bright. I used a couple more stamps and Blueberry and French Roast paints to add some stamping. One of the stamps says ‘disappear here’ and I was totally getting hooked and enjoyed the play. Which is what it’s all about. It is fun to make discoveries and each time you mix up a colour it is a bit like that. A little discovery you get excited about. Once I was happy with the overall composition I highlighted everything with Snowflake. I dry-brushed it on which meant that only the raised areas were touched with the brush. I also added so white to the centre. It was at this point when I was fairly satisfied with the overall look, but it needed a contrasting colour to create focal points or shall I say, areas of interest. I mixed London Bus and Zesty Zing to create orange. You probably know that orange and blue are complementary colours. They complement each other meaning, they are creating an aesthetically pleasing colour contrast, they create a harmony. This is why we group them into Harmonious Colour Schemes. Monochromatic and Analogous colours also belong to this group. There are other key points to colour relationships, but I won’t go into this as this post would be very long. So now I had my lovely and bright orange it needed to be ‘toned down’. You guessed it, I added a tiny bit of French Roast. And then a bit more and did this until I had my perfect dull orange, almost a colour of a rust. I applied the first coat of this colour to the ridged areas of my canvas and lightly touched here and there, this time with a palette knife. By using the palette knife I was safe in knowing only the raised areas would be covered and I wouldn’t get paint where I didn’t want it. I then used this very dull orange colour and added a bit of Zesty Zing. I adjusted the brightness and saturation again! I applied with a palette knife over exactly the same areas. Then I repeated this step until I had a gradient from darker dull orange until a bright light orange. That was fun! Today my mission was to prove that YOU CAN use a few basic colours to create a vast variety of other colours, from bright to dull, from light to dark and from primaries (or in this case their equivalent or close enough to them) to neutrals… I have a few close ups of the finished canvas for you… I hope you find my post useful as well as encouraging to experiment with colour mixing. You never know what you might discover! ;) Stay creative! All the best, Ingrid xxx Blogs: Ingrid Kristina V Designs& Mixed Media World Socials: Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Google+ Wow Ingrid, this is fabulous in its simplicity. We all know though that sometimes what appears minimal does in fact have a lot of work and layers involved, not to mention the careful thought and attention to colours and placement. Thankyou for all your hints and tips on mixing, this can be a confusing subject but you have shown how a stunning piece can be achieved with very few colours. We would love to see how you interpret this Colour Mixing topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #14: Colour Mixing, on this page HERE. All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Colour Mixing link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, Aug 7th 2016. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.
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Innovative creativity from PaperArtsy. Paint, stencils, and techniques galore for any mixed media enthusiast to enjoy.
Innovative creativity from PaperArtsy. Paint, stencils, and techniques galore for any mixed media enthusiast to enjoy.
Idyllic rural thrift-store paintings, while perhaps pretty, might not be the most interesting paintings in the world. David Irvine, however, has set out to change all of that by collecting thrift-store paintings and “re-directing” them by adding various pop-culture book, movie and TV characters.
These amazing book sculptures by Kelly Campbell are made with little more that some scissors, tweezers, and blades.
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2016 Topic 12: Fabric Rae Missigman Hi everyone, Darcy here, time flies and we are at the start of another challenge. This time it is fabric, I know that may immediately seem scary, but let's have a look at some inspiration and hopefully you will all feel able to take the plunge and bring fabric into your mixed media creations. Textiles have been as part of our lives since earliest civilisation, from handmade clothing and other practical items through to more decorative trims and house decor. Decoration of fabric began with embroidered clothing, and was a sign of wealth. Many samplers were stitched by wives and daughters, these became wonderful pieces of textile art. Antique Dress One of the earliest and simplest forms of textile construction would be felting, taking simple animal fibres and creating cloth from those. Then twisting, spinning and weaving followed. Functionality of textiles has continued, but methods and materials have changed and expanded dramatically and the Industrial Revolution changed textile technology significantly. As for artistic applications, the silk routes and introduction of dyes from abroad really transformed decoration. Nowadays with paint, dyes, unlimited synthetic fibres and all sorts of machinery we can create just about anything...and we do! Before we start, let's see who won the Topic 11: Our House Challenge... What a wonderful array of houses,fit for a Queen of crafting to live in. The vibrant colours and quirky shapes are such fun, it looks like you had a great time creating them. Even without a house stamp or stencil I think these are one of the easiest images to create. I hope this challenge has inspired you to add more houses in your work. . The winner of Our House is: Helen from StampingbyH Email Darcy to claim your prize. [email protected] Let's start with felting, a flat piece of felted fabric is one of the simplest techniques to try, however there are some stunning felted pieces out there. Needle felting especially can be intricate and very detailed. Soroka As we move through history we come across dyes that were introduced by travellers, these were brighter than the moss and vegetable dyes that we had traditionally used. Modern dyes and colourants are so varied, but the simplest and cheapest way to colour is with wax crayons. Here is a quick and easy video for you from Terrie Kygar. This technique could easily be applied to stamped images on fabric. Did you know that you can use your Fresco Chalk paints on fabric? add a little fabric medium, any brand, and the item becomes washable. I made this apron a few years ago and it has been washed several times. Weaving always had practical applications, whether for blankets, rugs or clothing. However there is no reason that practical can't be pretty too like these sweet woven bracelets by Kate Whitehead. If quilting is your thing, how about this bright and funky lollipop flower quilt. Your favourite flower stamps could be used here as the base shapes. Deborah O'Hare You don't fancy sewing? no problem, take inspiration from Elfi Cella, a Swiss painter. Here a shirt has been attached to a canvas and then texture paste added and painted. This would also be a good project for those still playing with Powertex. Moving onto smaller pieces, how about some cards made from tiny leftovers. These are stitched but you could easily layer up your scraps and glue them in place. Kelly King No stitching with this one at all, use freehand cut out shapes or stamped faces and create clothing with scraps. I have seen this done with pretty handkerchiefs as the skirt. LazyDoll Staying with smaller projects, let's go 3d. This decorated koi from Brooke Connor is so much fun. How about adding wire to your fabric and creating freestanding decorations. Many of your flowers and leaf stamps could be used to create wired flowers. Jennifer Swift These moths are my favourite find for this topic, I adore them. There are so many possibilities, ideas inspired by these little creatures. How would you go about creating something like this, think about what is in your stash right now, what could you use? Mister Finch All these so far would seem a little time consuming, so here is an idea for a really quick bookmark. Nothing could be simpler, but of course you could add your own twist to it. You could paint the card and stamp onto the fabric. Alysse Here is another no-sew idea, tags with die cuts holes and a piece of fabric glued behind. Darcy If you like layers then you could add fabric to a tag, make a pocket and fill it with all sorts of interesting bits. Anita Houston Now for some wall art, there are so many possibilities, fabric is so versatile and malleable . A simple layer glued on gives immediate texture, while subsequent layers and forms add dimension. Ginny Gibson What good are layers if you can't see through to the one below? Here you will find a tutorial by Susan Lenz, showing how she creates her box fibre art, and how she uses a soldering iron to reveal the layers of fabrics. If you are a fan of recycling then how about using up clothing labels and shopping bag handles. This is an intriguing quilt, it shows a glimpse into the maker's shopping habits, and could easily become a memory quilt. Perhaps you have shopping labels from a holiday? this would be a great way to collate them. I think I may have left the most interesting projects till last.. fabric journals. These can be no-sew, or they can be heavily embroidered, whichever you prefer. As mixed media artists these probably fulfil our need to use different mediums more so than other fabric projects. These books can be painted, dyed, stamped, stitched and embellished, really, anything goes! DJ Pettitt These are by Frances Pickering, they utilise pelmet vilene. This is an excellent base for a book cover as it is very sturdy, will take paint but can also still be stitched. I really like the shape of these books. I will leave you with this video from Leandra showing just how she paints with Frescos onto fabric . Hopefully you are now inspired to use some fabric, remember it does not need to be stitched, it could be glued as a layer under a stamped image or it could be a bought fabric item that you decorate. I am sure you have bags or an apron that could be transformed with paint. Have fun! Don't forget to follow Darcy's and Leandra's pinterest boards (Leandra also has a mixed media Textiles board here) if this topic pushes your buttons, you will see plenty more examples to whet your appetite there! I am really looking forward to seeing what you create over the next 2 weeks! Darcy Topic 12: Fabric PaperArtsy Blog Challenge We'd love you to share your ideas and link up your creative response to our current blog topic. Take a minute to read the challenge guidelines below. All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Fabric link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, June 26th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00. 1. The challenge is a for you to show how you are inspired by the current blog topic. Your entry should contain: - a mention of which post inspired you and why, and - a link in your blog post to that original post on the PA blog. The whole concept of this challenge is 'play along with us'. You are encouraged to put your own twist on ideas you see on our blog, do your own thing - whatever grabs you! 2. The link you put on our linky page must lead directly to the specific post on your blog where you have explored the technique/ idea mentioned in point 1 above. Don't link to the home page of your blog. 3. We prefer your challenge blog post is created exclusive to our challenge, but if our topic fits perfectly with another challenge, then you may link to both if appropriate. 4. You are most welcome to use stamps/ products/ substrates you have to hand from a variety of companies, we do not expect you to exclusively use PA products - it's lovely when you do though! 6. You can enter as many times as you like. We don't want to restrict your creativity! NB. Link closes at 17:00 Sunday June 26th (London Time) 7. The winner of the random draw will receive a £50 credit voucher to be redeemed on the PaperArtsy Website. The credit voucher includes VAT and postage. We request that one of your purchases is an A5 rubber stamp. You can add any other items to your basket, but the final total should not exceed £50. 8. Each fortnight on Sunday, the winner will be announced at 19:00 (London time). In the same post, the link for the next fortnight will be posted. 9. It's your responsibility to claim your prize coupon from Darcy. email: [email protected] Good Luck! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
This Saturday I'm repeating this exciting class at Seriously Scrapbooking. My Mixed Media Canvas is going to be a regular fun class where you can explore your creativity and try something new. The class is at 10am on 17th January and is only $36. Please call 82771298 to book in. Come and join me next Wednesday 21st January for a Copic Card and Technique Class. Class is $16 + small kit. Please bring your own markers. Copic experience is essential Call 82771298 to book in.
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Hi Everyone, I am happy to finally blog this trio of canvases. I have also entered these canvases to SanDee & Amelie’s Anything Goes Steampunk/Industrial Challenge. I received an order f…
