It's week 5 of the 100 days of collage course! ( You can find it HERE). We have been exploring real and imagined worlds! This week was fun to try something different and explore adding narrative to our collages. Day 29: Steampunk Fantasy On day 29 we were tasked to craft a steampunk collage! Steampunk …
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I am now on to week 4 of the 100 Days of Collage class. You can find the class HERE. It is a skill-share class run by Froyle Davies. This week I have been experimenting with texture. For this challenge we looked at using different ways to create texture in our collages. We used fabric, …
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Week three of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week's focus was Mixed Media Mastery! For Day 15 our prompt was to create a mixed-media collage that explored the beauty of nature. We were encouraged to incorporate elements like leaves, flowers, or twigs. We created our …
Week two of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week focuses on found objects! Found objects My collage on day 8! The challenge was to find and include as many found items as possible in my collage. I included vintage items like a vintage stamp, a …
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I'm Continuing with my 100 days of collage project. This project is inspired by Froyle Davies. She has created the class, "Celebrate your creative self: Mixed media art class; 100 days of collage," on SkillShare. Days 6 and 7 of the course use two things that I love: layers and Gel plate printing! You can …
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This week I have started a little personal project to explore the world of collage. I'm specifically exploring how I can incorporate collage techniques into mixed media artworks. To do this I am planning on making a collage a day for 100 days! I am using the course "Celebrate Your Creative self- mixed media art …
Head to my Youtube channel to watch my video on creating negative space leaf paintings. This technique is great for creating beautiful artworks in their own right, or fabulous mixed media background papers for collage and paper crafts. Below are some examples of negative space painting I've created and some of the ways in which …
Be sure to check out the latest digital kit on my Etsy shop. This 20 page digital kit is bursting with vintage floral and botanical images, scrappy-paper elements and tags galore! In this Vintage scrappy flowers kit, there are 11 different paper designs, 3 sheets of tags, 2 pages of collage elements, a sheet of …
Autumn is here and Halloween is fast approaching, but there's still time to do some Halloween crafting! Click the link below to download your FREE PDF file of Halloween junk journal printables that I have designed for you! halloween-free-23Download This free printable includes a selection of spooky papers in lined and unlined versions plus gift …
A collage workshop run for Blackburn and District Artists Society Recently I ran a workshop for the talented artists in Blackburn and District Artists Society The workshop was entitled "Drawing with scissors" and was inspired by the work of Matisse, Rex Ray and Eric Carle. In this workshop, we found out about how Matisse took …
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