I love painting decorative papers. I use them in my art journal and collage work, and today I’m going to show you one way that you can use painted papers in a fun way. For the July crusade I took a pile of papers out and tore some strips of paper. I followed exactly what […]
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Month: July 2010
Painting your Own Decorative Papers
Painting decorative papers to use in collage and mixed media art projects is pure happiness to me. I love making my own thing, as you know. Spreading the paint out on recycled printer papers is something I love doing. Mixing colours, making marks, creating texture, combining patterns. Some of these papers are like little abstract […]
The Giant Poppy
Greetings from a Giant Poppy. The latest addition to Dad’s garden is a Giant Poppy. He called me over when he had put it in the ground, to admire it with him. And I have to agree with him, it is magnificent and a real garden beauty. I think it just screams of natural magic […]
Golden liquid acrylic paint & some Twinkling
Painting is like magic to me. You touch the paper with colors and an image appears! A realist will tell you it’s not magic at all but a science of understanding colors and textures. I’d rather look at painting as magic! Brenda Grounds McCart A while back I splurged on some new to me paints, […]
Continuing with the Squares: Moth, Bunny, Owl, Mou...
Moth-eaten clouds, original art Collage by iHanna, May 2010. Sold. Available. I’m continuing with square collages. Little originals created with my favorite materials right now; pieces of wrinkled papers, acrylic paint, pencil and charcoal pen. They are the same size as the previous two owl collages; 13×13 centimeters (5×5″), the perfect fit inside the mat […]