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    Painting with Mixed Media
    Painting with Mixed Media
    Painting with Mixed Media
    Ebook350 pages48 minutes

    Painting with Mixed Media

    By Paula Guhin and Geri Greeman

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    A gorgeously illustrated guide to exploring the creative possibilities of multiple materials in your arts and crafts.
     
    Learn how to use painting mediums such as acrylic, watercolor, oil paint, ink, tempera, and pastels in combination with glazes, gesso, wax, and other materials for use in collages, scrapbooks, memory boxes, photo albums, and individual art pieces. For beginners to mixed-media painting as well as those who seek to expand their knowledge and skills with new ideas, techniques, or combinations, this guide opens up new creative paths and possibilities.
     
    Each chapter features a different painting medium, exploring the ways it can be combined with other materials, and ends with spin-off suggestions that challenge you to continue exploring. Also included are a gallery of inspiring artwork from eight mixed-media artists and a list of resources for art materials.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 14, 2023
    ISBN9780811748834
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      So many techniques and unusual material uses as well as the usual, all explained briefly but in enough detail to be brave enough to try. If it as good as my first read, I'll probably raise my rating to five stars .

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    Painting with Mixed Media - Paula Guhin

    The conventional art materials mentioned here are categorized broadly. In addition, we’ve made lists of ephemera, odds and ends, and household items that can be used to make art. Collage is a powerful tool for any painter. Use it to add texture, personal imagery, memorabilia, and more to your paintings. And layering adds a new dimension to the work in several senses of the word!

    Spray paint, stencil, tissue, water-soluble pencils, sgraffito (read more about sgraffito on page 55).

    Vintage images, acrylic mediums, and paint.

    These common household items likely can be found in the kitchen, laundry room, or workroom. Find a separate list of tools starting on page 6.

    Low- or No-Cost!

    This flotsam and jetsam is very cheap or (wait for it) free! Ephemera and repurposed items can become art.

    Venezia, by Paula. Acrylic paint and modeling paste, inks, fabric, and an original photograph.

    Green Scene

    Take a good look at product packaging and junk mail before you discard it. Surely some of the words, patterns, and images can be incorporated into your art!

    Relax . . . You likely won’t need all the items listed below!

    Traditional Art Tools

    Atypical Tools

    Artists have been using craft sticks forever, it seems, and they long ago realized the convenience of foam brushes, paint rollers, and daubers. Alternative tools can also be found in the garage (house-painting brushes, for one), in the bathroom (cotton balls, cotton swabs, and more), even in a billfold (old credit cards). Here are more art tool ideas:

    Hole reinforcements, address labels, staples, stamp pad ink, a postage stamp, and more went into this 8-by-10-inch piece.

    An artwork done with a transparency, a found image, acrylic paint, and inks.

    From the Galley

    A great number of kitchen items can be used in art-making.

    Incorporating images and symbols into artwork can add another level of meaning. Find inspiration in the sources below.

    This detail shows how Geri used photo-booth pictures, oils, and watercolor markers.

    Paula’s mixed-media collage includes a photo copy of an antique portrait. Vintage images add a classic heritage look—search through your stored things, your mother’s, your grand mother’s! Use copies of precious images in art-making.

    The actual cabinet photo used in this mixed media piece, entitled Heritage, was not valued or treasured by anyone. It was given worth in this artwork.

    Paula inkjet-printed a transparency of her grandmother Emma to use in this dimensional work.

    Support your art! Select the right

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