Mixed Media Collage On Wood

Sarah Brighton shows us how to make a collage on a small block of wood. It's free standing and would makes a nice little decoration for a shelf.



Supplies:

Liquitex Acrylic Gloss Medium & Varnish 4 oz. jar

Beacon 3-In-1 Advanced Craft Glue, 4-Ounce

Mixed media - acyrlic ink and paint

Artist Robert Joyner demonstrates his methods of using acrylic ink and paint. This tutorial has some fresh ideas to create more expressive and loose paintings.

The creative process of making a microcosm of one's world

Helen Pickles, during her BA Ceramics in Cardiff, is inspired by museum display cases and creates a quite complex multimedia microcosm of her world during the school year.

Making the Creative Process Visible - Full Films: Helen Pickles BA Ceramics UWIC 2008 from Dr. Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.

Thoughts on art and assemblage

Gary Reef is an Australian mixed media artist who now lives in a remote part of Norway. In this video he shares his thoughts on art and assemblage as he works on his latest assemblage shrine.

Hi-tech mixed media

This mixed media sculpture, 'Mystical Romantic Instrument', is made from a broken router, copper wire, flashing LED circuits from broken toys and a Picaxe 14m microcontroller.



If you want to add a microcontroller to your artwork, here are some books that will get you started.

Blackboards, chalk, pins and paper tags

Blackboards, chalk, pins and paper tags sound like an unlikely combination for making art, but here is Leslie Atik talking about her 2007 show, Marking Language. She says it is about the deeper meaning of language. Grammatical elements are physically marked on handwritten text, revealing patterns evocative of sheet music, and establishing a visual vocabulary.

Maggie Ayres: textile and mixed media artwork

The thoughts and techniques behind the creation of "Window" by Maggie Ayres. Maggie works with textiles, found objects and photographic images.

Claudine makes a collage sketch

Claudine Hellmuth is one of today's leading collage artists. She teaches mixed media collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 2 books and produced 2 instructional DVDs about her techniques.