Making art using tea bags is kind of like going on an art mini-vacation. You have your regular work, but you stop to take a break and make art on a tea bag. It’s quick and you feel like you’ve been a way for a while. I like to use a tea bag for an art-making mini-vacation because: Tea bags are s
I drink hot tea and I like lots of different flavors. I buy different brands, like Stash, Steep, or Twinings. All three brands have tea bags that are the same size, no staples, and have similar texture. Since I drink so much tea, it always pains me to throw out the used tea bags (I think “Oh no, th
Hello Friends! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, especially if this is a long weekend for you! It seems like I've be...
Have you seen Armén Rotch’s tea bag art yet? (Pictured above if you haven't.) They look a little like pixilated landscapes that, apparently, smell
How to clean teabags for art. Here is a great video to get you going. Teabag art challenge coming soon, February 1st.
How to make a tea bag art journal I’ve seen so much wonderful art made with tea bags. I just love the idea of mixing two of my favorite things together. So, I started saving
I just published this little book of art through CreateSpace and was happy with how easy the experience was. Here I share the process from making the art to seeing the book available for sale on Amazon.
Today I felt my collection of tea bags calling me and I think I may have started a new obsession with tea bag art. I am in love with tea bag art <3 p=""> I'm even thinking of starting a tea bag art only journal.
These are recycled tea bags! You have to see these examples of an amazing, ongoing, tradition of tea bag art, sculpture, embroidery, and stitching.
Art, it is all in the eye of the beholder so I’m told. And this form of art is definitely something you either appreciate or don’t. I find the use of a material that we would normally d…
I use watercolor crystals to add color to my tea-stained or rusted tea bags.
Libby Williamson is a fabulous teacher, as she proved once again in her Tea Bag Revival class at Artistic Artifacts on Sunday. (She also taught a 2-day Paint and Stitch class on Friday and Saturday.) Sue was in the Sunday class with 2 friends from out of town - all 3 of us took the 2-day class 2 years ago. Libby's art and style is very intuitive and whimsical - very "throw out the rules and make up your own", so there's no pressure to be perfect. She creates a fun and relaxed environment to try something new. The focus of the class was using tea bags (steeped, dried and emptied) as the foundation for collaged art. Here's Libby with one of her sample quilts. The brown squares you see are the tea bags. In the foreground of this photo, you can see some of the prepared tea bags. The tea bags are fused to a muslin base to stabilize them for sewing. Here Libby demonstrates the process for emptying the tea bags and fusing them to the muslin. This is another of Libby's samples. Enlarge the photos to get a better look at the mini collages. We used small pieces of fabric and painted papers to create the collages, which are machine stitched with black thread and also embellished with hand embroidery. These are Sue's tea bag collages. All the pieces are "glued" to the bags with matte medium which has to dry before proceeding. The stitching is kind of intuitive, some just outlining and/or keeping with the mostly geometric shapes. These are the machine stitched collages. There are 6 more in addition to the original group of 12. The next step is adding hand stitching. These are the collages Denise is working on. And here are Paula's collages. Aren't they both great? Libby did some instruction on how she arranges them on the background, as well as adding some other fabrics under and between some of them. After some additional stitching at home, Sue finished the embroidery on 12 collages. She is working on 4 more for a grid of 16. Then it will be time to play with adding some additional fabrics to the background and stitching it all together. There will likely be more hand stitching as well. Stay tuned for more on the final product. This was a fun class and we highly recommend Libby as a teacher. She teaches all over the country, so if she's ever in your area, sign up! Libby's website is called Art Soup and you can also follow her on Facebook to see what she's up to. If you're a subscriber of Quilting Arts, she been a cover girl and has articles in 3 issues - June/July 2017, April/May 2018, August/September 2018. Check them out!
Early this year, I started a visual diary called "363 Days of Tea". My goal was two-fold: to push my creative practice and to share it on social media, hoping to spark a different kind of inspiration. The used tea bag is not very attractive.
Use an everyday material (coffee and tea bags) to stain, stamp, stitch, and stack to add both visual and physical texture and create unique works of art.
Re-purpose your coffee filters and teabags! How I discovered the beauty of using them in my collage artwork.
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Learn how to add a digital print to a tea bag for art journal artwork
The other night I was sitting there, thinking what to do and spotted my stack of tea bag paper.. i did not feel like drawing, so I played around with other ideas.. i am almost out of my paper string (used for gift wrapping etc) and wondered what kind of sting the tea bags would make. Well, let's just see, shall we?I tried it and absolutely love the result! So many ideas for uses for this gorgeous stuff.Gift wrapping, of course, but could you imagine a basket woven from this? Or a wall hanging? O
Have delicious cup of tea and create a new painting. Win-win.