Tag: mixed media

  • Interesting Paint

    These paints are called Polished Pigments, I bought them on the Quilting Arts shop website. I first saw these being used by mixed media artist Bernie Berlin at IQF Chicago in Open Studios. This is an interesting product, you buy small containers of metallic powder and a clear paint medium to mix it with. You…

  • Blue Vessel

    After making the first vessel I realized that I needed to change a few things in the construction process. I used a fused hinge method to put the base on this new vessel. This was the method I used making the Dream Houses. It made construction much easier with less bending of the panels when…

  • Vessels

    For sometime I have wanted to try making some vessels. I have several ideas I want to explore. Besides trying different shapes, I of course want to include metal. I suppose it would have made sense to make one without adding metal first to try and work out the logistics of how to put one…

  • Beautiful student work following my workshop in Atlanta

    I just received a wonderful email from Marty Young, who was a student in my Mixed Media Painted Fabric workshop in Atlanta. Look at the fabulous project she made using her fabric. Marty says “I made an apron for my loyal guild library assistant …using the mixed media fabric for applique and fusing and machine…

  • Mixed Media Painted Fabric DVD is Back in Business

    Quilting Arts has just released the next three DVD’s in their new Workshop Series with Jamie Fingal, Ruth Rae and Rayna Gilman, go check them out. My workshop DVD on Mixed Media Painted Fabric is now back up on the website, too.

  • Playing with tea bags and more

    The paper on the top left with letters is a kimwipe, the one on the right is a large black tea bag for making iced tea. The white paper below is a tea bag from hibiscus tea, the bottom two dark tea bags I left the tea dry in the bag for several days before…

  • Dream Houses- more how-to details

    This is one of my favorite house views not seen in the magazine. In this months Cloth Paper Scissors magazine you can find the directions for making my Dream Houses also referred to as the bird houses. There are a lot of steps to making these and in fairness to the other contributors of the…

  • The Artful Use of Tea Bags

    This is my method for drawing on a tea bag. 1. After steeping your tea, set tea bag on the counter to dry and enjoy that fabulous warm cuppa tea with a dash of cream. 2. When tea bag is completely dry (not damp) carefully remove the staple, unfold top of bag and shake out…

  • Mixed Media Paper Quilt #3

    I started this one by collaging a nine patch of colored papers to fabric. I played around with a few options for layering other papers on it but didn’t like anything that I tried, but I did like the way some white rice paper looked when I put it on top. Using a fine point…

  • Mixed Media Paper Quilt #2

    Last night I made this paper/fabric quilt. I used some decorative paper for the flowers, pages from an old book for the leaves, inkjet prints of my little paintings (egg, sprout & bee), a dress pattern, a collaged xeroxed piece of fabric (root) and textile paint. This piece was stitched first and then fused to…

  • Mixed Media Paper Quilt- Finished?

    I was torn with how I should quilt this since the over all look began to feel like an aged document. I thought if I quilted around the elements like my first inclination would be, that it would be too predictable a thing to do, so I decided to take a risk and do quilting…

  • Mixed Media Paper Quilt- part 2

    I added text and marks for background patterns with rubber stamps inked with Tsukineko Inks. Then I fused the fabric to a 12 inch square of wool felt. I folded the edges over and fused them to the back of the felt. This makes a nice flat and flexible piece for stitching.

  • An Experimental Structure

    I started out with a piece of white fabric and began randomly gluing some technical illustrations of cicadas down with Golden gel medium. I then covered the surface of the fabric with metallic textile paints and glazed the line drawings with Golden fluids. When there was no more white fabric showing through I began to…

  • A book to honor my Dad

    A book to honor my Dad

    My sister Deb and I have been altering board books. These are small baby books you can buy on the sale shelf at bookstores for cheap. After peeling off the shiny paper the chip board underneath makes a great surface to paint and glue things to. My dad died several weeks ago. He came from…

  • Altered Book

    The last time I was at my sisters house, she pulled out all her paints, glazes, rubberstamps, gel medium, scraps of paper and magazines and I made my first altered book. Deb gave me a book she had picked up on the discount table at a book store to use as my “canvas”. The florentine…

  • Altered Book part 3

    A few days before we had made artist trading cards. So I glued my cards into the book. This page has little windows cut in it like an advent calendar that reveal more pictures of my quilts.