This is another of the mixed media pieces that I’ve been working with this week. This one has a different texture to the previous mixed media piece I showed you which you can see here, and I used only one color to paint it. Again I’ve highlighted the texture so that it really stands out. […]
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Welcome to another week! I hope your weekend was as much fun as mine! This is how mine started – a table-top full of fun stuff just waiting to be played with. And this is one of the pieces that emerged – a beautiful textural mixed media collage background made using paper, gesso, molding paste,
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This weekend I found a few spare hours to play around with lutradur so see what I could come up with. I don’t use lutradur often but it’s got some special features that are kind of nice … It has a beautiful web-like texture, kind of like dryer sheet texture which I love, but more
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In this tutorial I’m going to show you a fun and creative technique for making what I call “fiber doodles”. Fiber doodles which are pieces of decorative fabric that are made using thread, decorative yarn or fiber, and water soluble stabilizer. These fabric pieces can then be used as background pieces on art quilts or
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One of my very favorite things to work with is texture on fabric. I love exploring new and creative ways to make it and to use it. And I particularly love to use stitch as a way to create raw texture on fabric or fabric paper which can then be used for painting or printing.
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So now she’s done. She didn’t turn out in any way at all like I first envisaged, I saw her as a more contemporary type of art doll rather than the elegant lady she turned out to be, but sometimes that’s where the process takes you; to places you never intended or imagined, and all
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