After draping your art shrine or assemblage with plaster and gauze, you can achieve astonishing results by layering paint and polyurethane. These photos show just a few of my experiments with this technique. It’s best to read this entire page before shopping for paint, polyurethane, and related supplies. You may get some great, unique ideas […]
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Plaster gauze is ideal for embellishing your art shrines and assemblages. Add gold foil, gold leaf, glitter, beads, vintage jewelry, crystals, or other features, and your art can really stand out! Plaster Gauze To learn the basics of using plaster gauze (or plaster plus gauze… generally the same product), see: Shrines – Add Texture with
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This is page two of the instructions that started at Art Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster Gauze. Plaster and gauze – the same materials used in medical settings for traditional plaster casts – can add excitement and dimension to your art shrines and assemblages. 5. Dip gauze all the way into the water, and
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Plaster gauze can add exciting dimensions to your art shrines, mixed media art, or even your art journaling book covers. The effects are completely unlike a “plaster cast.” Here’s what a finished product can look like. (It started as a cardboard cigar box. You can buy them at Amazon, and some cigar stores sell them
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You can create elegant rubbings for your art journaling, mixed media art, or decor. You can use rubbings from almost any textured surface, and featuring almost any theme. However, the textured item should be made of metal or a material that can withstand pressure without damaging it. For example, you might do rubbings using metal
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The Asparagus Wand was created for Sukie’s “Fairy Wand Exchange,” in July 2001. I made four of them to add to the wands already being sent by my daughter – who’d adopted the name “Applefaerie” – and me. The Asparagus Wand is shown below. It started in Michael’s Arts & Crafts store, where my daughter
This is an Altoid tin shrine created for a 2000 Capolan exchange, and titled the Relic Room Assemblage. The outside of the box: Altoid tin, secured with an antique button, and hemp twine with beads. Preparing the Altoid tin: First, I hammered it to age it. Then I sprayed it with a cream-colored epoxy paint,
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These are notes from my popular Artfest 2001 workshop about using images and word art to embellish purses and tote bags. Supply list Vinyl bag with at least one transparent side. Plain white paper as your collage support Collage elements – flat (or nearly flat) items and images Some kind of paper adhesive Clear laminating
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This is another project started in the mid-1990s and not completed. Clearly, even good projects are sometimes put aside. Basically, I was going to make myself a bunch of great wearable art pinafores. Note: In the States, a pinafore is called a jumper. I grew up calling them pinafores, because… well, that’s what my family
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I’ve always loved the color purple. Almost every shade of purple delights me. This is an original one-of-a-kind jacket that I created around 1992, using a Vogue designer jacket pattern. The fabrics are all 100% cottons. On half of the front, I have hand-beaded with glass bugle and seed beads. I’ve also painted it with
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