Mixed Media, Mixed Messages: Media and Mediality in the Eighteenth CenturyCall for PapersThe Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University is pleased to announce the eighth Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, to be held on May 13-15, 2009. The workshop is part of a series of annual interdisciplinary events that has been running since 2002, with 20-30 scholars presenting and disc
Luca: graphite, watercolor & colored pencil on Canson paperAvailable on Ebay here.SoldI've come to a mountain of realizations about my work this summer. Most of it is critical, but I'm trying to use every point as "coal in a furnace" of motivation. I've committed to weekly 6-hour life-study sessions until December, and I'll post some of my results here. If any of you are offended by nudity, I'm a
The Hundreds are expanding into Koreatown (Los Angeles) with a mixed media location. It’s yet to be seen what to expect, but it could be a showcase for artwork by their design team and other local artists or maybe a new clothing location on the other part of town. We’ll all know the truth come [...]
End of the Day 5.75 x 8.25 Carbon Pencil, Watercolor & Colored Pencil on 300 lb Arches paperAvailable for sale here.An experiment with loose, expressive mark making on top of layered watercolor and carbon pencil.
Mixed media art auctions have a lot to offer. Today I found several seriolithographs. I liked the colors that the Polish artist Zamy Steynovitz used.
The fun part of mixed media art auctions is that you just never know what you’ll find. I found a pebble art piece from the 1960’s that featured [...]
Clovelly Harbour, Devon, charcoal and coloured pencil on beige paper. Vivien BlackburnI've said that I only occasionally work from photos - this is one time that I did.The reason is that I would like to do some paintings of Clovelly and I hate painting directly from photographs. Sketching, simplifying and making colour decisions and then working from the sketch, changing things again, is how I tackle the problem. I'm not a photo realist so I don't want to reproduce the painting. The scanner hasn't picked up all the colours very well, there are blues in the stones of the wall at the front, reflecting the colours of the sea and cool misty blue of the sky.The village is built of rocks from the seafront - huge rocks in the harbour walls and smaller rocks for the walls of the houses and gardens
I keep reading the first 5 sentences of blogs before I remind myself I’m not supposed to be reading them.Yes, I’m trying “Reading Deprivation” again. You ask, “But Milena, why? It’s a stupid exercise that made you horribly depressed the last time you tried it…are you a glutton for punishment?” No, I’m not a glutton for punishment, just curious about what is on the “other side” of a week of reading-lessness, and I joined this little web-group that is going through The Artist’s Way together. I figured some hand-holding would do me good.So – instead of reading I’m working on a new top secret project. Well, it’s not so top secret. I told a friend of mine and my husband, but I don’t want to make a big deal in case anyone finds out what it is and tells me it
I keep reading the first 5 sentences of blogs before I remind myself I’m not supposed to be reading them.Yes, I’m trying “Reading Deprivation” again. You ask, “But Milena, why? It’s a stupid exercise that made you horribly depressed the last time you tried it…are you a glutton for punishment?” No, I’m not a glutton for punishment, just curious about what is on the “other side” of a week of reading-lessness, and I joined this little web-group that is going through The Artist’s Way together. I figured some hand-holding would do me good.So – instead of reading I’m working on a new top secret project. Well, it’s not so top secret. I told a friend of mine and my husband, but I don’t want to make a big deal in case anyone finds out what it is and tells me it
Midnight, High Tide. 11-12 ins square, acrylic and coloured pencil painting. Vivien BlackburnSo far all the paintings I've done of this subject have been daytime or evening - I wanted to catch a nightime view and also do a painting with the tide high.I underpainted in a mix of ultramarine and raw umber and white. Ultramarine or indigo and burnt umber are what Paynes Gray is made up with - so that's a colour you really don't need to buy. If you mix your own you can tip it slightly bluer or slightly browner and have a little variety, which I think is more interesting than a flat colour.I then added touches of colour on the cliffs, in the clouds and the sea in purple, blues, green, ochre and brown coloured pencils. The underlying acrylics create a unity of colour and help with the nig
beach, charcoal and coloured pencil, 7 x 7.5 inches Vivien Blackburn Experiments. The scan isn't level - the horizon is :>) - a small version of the charcoal/cp beach trying out a cream cartridge paper as the background. The toothier paper worked much better, this is a little too smooth. I also like working larger better. And the landscape below was a mixed media demo of acrylics loosely applied to grey card (which shows through in places) with a palette knife and then worked on with pastels and a little coloured pencil. Winter Fields. mixed media. Vivien Blackburn 8.5 x 5.5 inchesI'm hoping to push on with the canvasses tomorrow..
Mawgan Porth, Cornwall copyright Vivien Blackburnwatercolour, charcoal pencil, coloured pencil, oil pastelThis is a lovely beach on the north coast of Cornwall, just a couple of miles from where I lived as a child. The light on the wet sand and pools is beautiful and constantly changing. A small stream comes down the steep valley and joins the sea here, skirting the edge of this cliff. Steep - very steep - narrow roads lead up each side with hairpin bends making driving interesting when you meet a bus or lorry :)This is the morning light - the cliffs opposite were lit with a honey/amber glow in the mornings. In the afternoons they were shadowed and darker, almost silhouettes where the rocks are dark. The cliffs reflect in the pools.Down near the low water line there's a pattern of pools very close to each other and quite deep - up to 2 feet deep - carved out by the crashing waves. I remember these well from childhood - when paddling you could suddenly find the water that had been up
There is something about Rachel Austin's work that really appeals to me. I'm sure it has to do with the cool texture of her paintings and that they often feature the simple, yet amazing paper airplaine. They also all begin with a map underneath as a base. Very cool. Find this one and others at Rachel Austin.
Sorting out some stuff in my studio I came across this little collage I did ages ago and decided to use a little coloured pencil on it just to bring it together. I'm quite pleased with it and I'm going to mount it on canvas and varnish it to protect it. I think I'll probably paint the surrounding canvas black though - I'll leave a border showing like here. It's about 8 x 5 ins guesstimating.Here it is on a black background - what do you think?
Was to busy relaxing the whole day. :D Only did some crafting in the afternoon. :)My home is full of vintage accessories and retro junk, old treasures, little bits and pieces that we don't use anymore, but never sampai hati to throw away because of the thought that they'll come in handy one day or we might want to use them again.I was going through my 'never-worn' and spoiled accesories, stashed away in several boxes in several places. I decided to make some use of them. :){Click on the images to view the respective listing on Etsy}Rainbow Funky Fun Junk NecklaceDescription on Etsy :My first ever necklace using mixed media. I LOVE it. :D Necklace is of old brown leather tied together in a knot. Easily slips over any head. Not too long, the whole schwagg will be right on your chest. :) An acrylic purple star and a acrylic beige scottie... flanking a long Asian-themed beaded center-piece with added ruby red twist silver foil infused bead and perky lime yarn. Natural wooden beads resi
A sketch of Frog island, a grotty inner city industrial area, in watercolour and coloured pencil in the 11 inch square sketchbook.I really like to mix media, it gives me different marks and possibilities to draw on to push darks or emphasise lights.The tree is enhanced with a Lyra flourescent yellow pencil - the leaves were that incredibly bright and fresh spring green against the murky darkness of the old brick wall behind it.Behind the weir the water was inky dark and appeared still, although of course it wasn't. In front there was bright light reflecting and a jumble of ever changing (as the light changed) reflections. English weather isn't the easiest for sketching in! sometimes the light on the water reflected the bricks of the buildings clearly and at other it went dark with only hints of a reflection as clouds went over the sun.At one point the friend I was sketching with stood helpfully in front of the scene :>) I was drawing
This is a monotype of AJC, pulled from a sheet of beveled plexi glass rolled with oil-based black Daniel Smith etching ink. I used Arches 88 paper for it's smooth surace, because I wanted to add colored pencil later. Social Skills, 7 x 8 Monotype, Colored Pencil & Watercolor
Yep, I'm still playing with some abstract ideas, but plan to return to some more traditional artwork tomorrow.
Warm Geometrics With Gold, 2.5x3.5" (ACEO)This painting is watercolor and ink with a gold metallic border and detailing, on watercolor paper:
Vacation Time, 2.5x3.5" ACEOInk and red acrylic, with silver metallic border and detailing, on watercolor paper
New Year's Eve, 2.5x3.5" ACEONeocolor II and ink on watercolor paper
$8 each via Paypal to JamieWG@aol.com, including postage within the US. Specify date (1/1/07) and title of painting with your payment and I'll get it right off to you. One of the advantages of acrylic, ink and watercolor is that they don't need weeks of drying time!
A monotype of the Mission at San Juan Capistrano (printed in reverse of the actual lay out of the grounds), which came out a bit too dark for my liking.After watercolors and colored pencils, it's lightened up a bit, and adjusted.California Mission, 4 x 6 Monotype & Mixed MediaBid on it here.
This started as a viscosity monotype (layering blue, rubine red and process yellow). I didn't care for the result after pulling it - a little more pressure on the press would have yielded more color blending. So, this one was in the Goof-Off pile. I played with it using colored pencil and watercolors last night.Blumen, 6 x 9 Monotype & Mixed Media
