DOLL DRESS & DOLL PARTS = COLLAGE / PAINTING

This artwork, in pinks and greens, uses a complementary color scheme.


Notice the arms and legs are from different dolls!

The dress, while adhered very well with acrylic medium, adds texture to the piece.

LET YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT FLY WITH THIS PROJECT

HARVEST THIS HALLOWEEN

 OR FALL IDEA!

The October issue of Arts & Activities Magazine (a resource every visual arts teacher should have) has one of these Mexican-inspired, mixed media paper creations on the cover (my complete article is featured in the magazine, which you can access online).

The figure, from an old anatomy book, was enhanced with acrylics.





The "wings" here are also from an unwanted medical book.

Washes of thin acrylics were used to enhance the anatomy images,
but inks could be used instead. Dia de los Muertos,
or Day of the Dead,is all about new birth,
re-birth, and transformation.



http://www.artsandactivities.com/





ENCRUST ALMOST ANYTHING!

Embedding is Easy

 

The back of a thrift-store hand mirror can be embellished with bits of  costume jewelry. The adhesive can be heavy gel medium or any of your favorite, heavy-duty glues.



Transform a plain surface by encrusting it.

I have posted before about this method of altering objects. The covers of altered books are great for this technique!   

Texture is a good thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See how I re-created the surface of the

vessel below at this link: http://mixedmediamanic.blogspot.com/2013/05/encrustation-and-embedding-in-artwork.html

Creepy, right? Like Pandora's Box!

 

                                                                  

                                                 Even a handbag can be collaged and encrusted.



EASY IMPRINTING OF WATERCOLOR OR LIQUID ACRYLIC

TWO SIMPLE TECHNIQUES!

 

The first method uses plastic shapes cut from shopping bags. I made boulder-like forms by wetting watercolor paper, placing the plastic shapes firmly down on the damp paper, and painting washes around them.

Let dry before removing the plastic. Then develop the painting further. See mine below.



I have a video of making this on YouTube!

The next technique is also a resist method for imprinting a painting. I wanted a garden-y, trellis-y effect for a painting with leaves.
Fold waxed paper, open it up again, and lay it into a wet wash of vivid ink or fluid paint. Press it down with a sheet of glass on top. Let dry before removing the glass and the waxed paper.


Waxed paper texture at work! Folded examples at right.

Embellish and make marks as desired to
achieve the effect you want!

This is a detail of the finished piece.