Share Your Mixed-Media Art : acrylic paint

mountain girl

francine miller — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:26:39 GMT

I love mixing painting and fabrics. We saw this mountain girl when we lived in Montana. The collage is inspired by my original photograph

Autumn

joraines — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:59:16 GMT

This piece is part of my self-challenge this year to Make Art Daily. Part of that is learning new mixed media techniques such as the faux cloisonne piece using chipboard, UTEE, a heat gun, mica powders, Versamark and a rubber stamp with gold pigment ink. I also made molds of my vintage picture buttons using Amazing Mold Putty and polymer clay painting them with black gesso and metallic gold paint and sealing them with gloss acrylic sealer. The photo of Alphonse Mucha's Autumn was printed using Printed Treasures and enhanced with acrylic and metallic paint and Pigma Pens. Other materials include cotton fabric, batting, organza, woven plaid, metal leaf charm, glass beads, cheesecloth and hand and machine sewing and machine quilting. It is self-bound and measures 10" x 12 3/4". Small pieces like this allow me to incorporate new techniques, use scraps and accomplish a piece in a smaller amount of time than when making a large quilt or thread painting.

What We Want, handmade art book, view 4

carolwiebe — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:02:06 GMT

A view of pages 3 and 4. I have written more about this book on my blog, Silverspring Studio.

It was created using the same techniques as OVA, a larger art book that was featured in Workshop on the Web, September 2010.

What We Want, handmade art book, view 3

carolwiebe — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:58:08 GMT

A view of pages 1 and 2. I have written more about this book on my blog, Silverspring Studio.

It was created using the same techniques as OVA, a larger art book that was featured in Workshop on the Web, September 2010.

What We Want, handmade art book, view 2

carolwiebe — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:52:48 GMT

A view of the whole book, pages side. 4.5″ x 5.5″ Read more about it on my blog.

It was created using the same techniques as OVA, a larger art book that was featured in Workshop on the Web, September 2010.

What We Want, handmade art book, view 1

carolwiebe — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:44:14 GMT

A view of the whole book, pages side. 4.5″ x 5.5″ Read more about it on my blog.

It cups nicely in the hand, and was created using the same techniques as OVA, a larger art book that was featured in Workshop on the Web, September 2010.

Shiny Things

artsiehorse — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:45:20 GMT

We all know birds love shiny things!

This is strips of different papercloth that's glued and sewn to stretched canvas. Then I painted the bird in acrylic and added metallic tape and metal eyelets.

Romance, in Silk by Nancy M Burleson

Nancy burleson — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:42:57 GMT

Romance is a wallhanging made of dupioni silk backed with a cotton batting. It also consists of paper, clothpaper (hearts and the top Fluer de Le), acetate stampings and photo transfer, crystals ,wood, art yarn and other fibers, mother of pearl beads and painted canvas beads that were embellished with foiling and Tiny flat back crystals. All was sewn by hand except top trangle was done with some free motion embroideryand hand sewing,a stamping in acrylic paint and more art yarns for the fringe. I will add a couple closer pics, I am new to this

Silk Sari Ribbon Journal

heathers3stars — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:31:41 GMT

This is a mixed-media art journal cover that I created using Silk Sari Ribbon. I quilted it onto black cotton muslin in vertical strips, then to add more texture and color variation I layered the ribbons, alternating smaller and wider widths. The block letters below which, of course, read "JOURNAL" are created using stamped canvas which is overdyed with diluted liquid acrylic paints, fabric art markers, and free-motion stitching. I created a looped fringe with the ribbon for the bound edge of the journal for more tactile interaction with the journal, and finished off the "Ribbon Quilt" with a sprinkling of hand-sewn beads.

Invoking Clarity

carolwiebe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:57:25 GMT

With the full power of the moon behind her, this woman invokes clarity.

But clarity does not necessarily arrive quickly, in an easily discernible package, hovering just above our gaze before wrapping us in its bright tendrils.

Rather, we piece all the various small revelations together, and begin to fathom a more spacious vision with each shining quilt, painting or poem that we “complete.”

Perhaps “completion” is not the direction we want to move towards, with its suggestion of closure.

What we really seek is a perpetual opening, a ceaseless unfolding, until we become so expansive that everything else is part of us, and we of it.

This is on a solid birch panel. It looks like a wrapped canvas.

Pod

carolwiebe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:45:05 GMT

The sacred trinity is so rich: (1) body, mind, spirit (2) past, present, future (3) thought, word, deed (4) maiden, mother, crone (5) me, myself, I (6) father, son, holy ghost (7) mother, daughter, holy spirit.

A pod is a vessel, a receptacle of precious seed. Seeds signify possibilities. Every time we dare to hope or dream, another seed is planted. Note that the pod is broken open. How else can we plant seeds, other than by having the courage to reveal our inner selves ~ the rich, dark ground from which those seeds may sprout and blossom?

Collage Painting (acrylic paint, collage, and stamping, scratching, flinging, finger brushing, rubbing, layering, laughing)
16" x 20" wrapped canvas

Triple Lotus

carolwiebe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:18:02 GMT

The lotus is a symbol of purification.

Global Oneness states: The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represents material life, the stalk passing up through the water typifies existence in the astral world, and the flower floating on the water and opening to the sky is emblematic of spiritual being.

I tripled it for good measure. Trinities have proven to be quite effective alliances, especially in spiritual arenas.

Perhaps I will land a quad next . . . or is that simply hubris?

Collage Painting (acrylic paint, collage, and stamping, scratching, flinging, finger brushing, rubbing, layering, laughing)
18" x 24"