It’s Tuesday…yes, studio day! (even though I spent a fair bit of time in their yesterday). This is total play day today. I’m actually feeling a bit yuk so just had half a day but considering it started at 5.30am I think we can count that a full day!
Ok enough of that…what did I do?? I’ve been playing around with Moiko Silkscreens lately (huge thanks again to Gosia for that) and decided to play with a bit of mixed media. I wanted to explore the “dirty silkscreens” more so have been thinking for a few days about how I could do that. I love the idea of creating small, individual artworks that can stand alone or become part of a larger piece so that’s what I thought I would have a play with.
As always, let’s tell the story in pics.
Firstly I created a bunch of polymer clay pieces all with the same theme. I chose black, cooper, ecru and gold clay. I silkscreened some of the pieces, I cracked some, I used chalks, embossing powder, acrylic paint and foils. I didn’t really care if I didn’t have a specific purpose for each piece, I just wanted to create a range that could mix and match…so I basically went into this blindly and simply played.
Next I created some tyvek pieces. For those of you who have never heard of tyvek paper, it is a sheet of bonded, spun polythylene fibres which comes in 3 different weights. You can colour the surface of the paper in any number of ways and then with the application of heat, it changes form, shrinking, bubbling and distorting, to give a range of very cool surface texures. Painting with metallic paint is incredible. The addition of glitter paint is mind blowing!! I love this stuff.
I gathered together a collection of rust and tannic papers (these were gifted to me by my friend Lexie Lazenby) and manipulated them with foils and paints.
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I gathered a range of hand dyed silk strips, hand dyed calico, wool, metallic cord and a few other bits and pieces. I didn’t use all of them but wanted to get a selection together so I had a good variety to choose from.
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I grabbed a whole bunch of yummy beads – oh I love this selection.
Some twigs and sticks might come in handy.
and of course, recylcled copper wire.
Finally some extra embellishing bits – feathers, wire lace, skeleton leaves. I could have gathered more stuff but thought this was probably plenty.
and I just had to chuck some extra pics in here for fun.
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| These are my two favourite pieces so thought I would share a close up. |
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A close up of the orange tyvek paper piece. This was painted with silks acrylic glaze.
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I hope you enjoyed ready about my little Tuesday play…I had fun sharing it with you.
Love Deb
I just love the way you think and work. These are marvelous! Thank you for the inspiration! I love the idea of making pieces, all within a color family, and then putting them together with other mixed media pieces from twigs to paper to ribbon to beads. Perfect! I think that I would like to use that concept to work on a cohesive grouping for some mixed media mosaics that I am working on. Wonderful work as always! Enjoy the day! Erin
Hey Erin, you know I found the process of this very relaxing and really enjoyed it. It was more like “playtime” to be honest. I do love mixed media and have all sorts in the studio so to be able to create something with a variety of products is so exciting for me. Would love to see some of your mixed media mosaics. Thanks for your lovely comments on my blog, I really do appreciate it.
Wow, I am just blown away! You are one heck of a creative lady and I had no idea there were so many ways to put pieces together and so many mediums you can use to do it with! You've opened my mind to a whole new world here and Thank You so much for sharing all that you do. And even the way you write your blog makes me feel right at home, glad to meet you Deb and I can't wait to look at the rest of your work! Love Pam
awwww Pam, what a beautiful comment honey – lovely way to start my day. Yes, there are a million things you can team with polymer clay aren't there. I think it's simply a matter of playing and sometimes it can all come together quite nicely. Happy you like the way I write the blog too Pam. I'm sooooo not a writer and lengthy blogs make me lose interest so I like to keep it short and sweet. Thanks again Pam. xx
Wow! So many great things. I love all the colors, textures, shapes, etc.
Absolutely stunning! you are so, so talented!
Thank you so much, that's a really kind thing to say.
This sort of thing I what I wish I could do. A visual feast indeed!
aww thanks Fran, you know I'm sure you could do it honey. x