At our last guild meeting, my kindred art spirit and dear friend Judy, showed us how she creates her beautiful mixed media art pieces using various objects to create texture in pastes and gels. After creating that texture on the canvas and letting the paste/gel dry, she then showed us how to stamp and paint over the textured areas for depth of color. A lot of the supplies she used were made by Golden but you can also achieve texture on your surface as she did with regular household paste found at your local home improvement store. You can see the full demo here.
After watching Judy’s demo, several of our members were talking excitedly about incorporating small polymer clay pieces and canework into a piece like this. Judy makes stamped, textured and glazed polymer clay buttons and faces to incorporate into her art. You can see a face at the top of her canvas. To see more of Judy’s work, visit her website.
Oh, the possibilities!
Tags: Golden gel medium, mixed media art, painting
June 15, 2008 at 2:39 pm |
Karen, I agree, Judy gave a great demo ! I have been inspired to create a mixed media canvas, and plan to incorporate many pieces from my ‘cane slices stash’……..
June 15, 2008 at 2:58 pm |
Hi Dora. I’m inspired, too, to create a mixed media canvas now. Maybe I’ll make mine with a tea theme. Looking forward to seeing what you create!
June 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm |
Karen, what a surprise to see you speak of my work and my demo on your blog… You are so kind… I do hope I inspired you all. Dora, thanks also for the kinds words. I enjoyed showing everyone this.. it’s so fun and the possibilities are endless.
June 15, 2008 at 4:44 pm |
Surprise!
Thanks Judy, for your generous spirit and inspiration!
June 21, 2008 at 7:21 pm |
wow! what beautiful work! thanks for sharing!
June 21, 2008 at 8:02 pm |
Doesn’t she do great work? I hope you enjoyed the demo!