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…
Author: Aisling
Embellishments for Mystery & Dazzle
Plaster and gauze are ideal materials for embellishing your art shrines and assemblages. To learn the basics of using plaster and gauze, see: Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster and Gauze Applying Plaster Gauze to your Art Shrine When using plaster-embedded gauze, you can create fabulous textural effects with common household and art objects. Among…
Applying Plaster Gauze to Your Art Shrine
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. This is page two of instructions that started at Art Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster Gauze. 5. Dip gauze all the way into the water, and remove…
Art Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster Gauze
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. Cigar stores often sell them at a good, low price.) Art Shrines…
Rubbings in Your Art Journals – Not Just for Halloween!
There are many ways to use rubbings in art journaling, collages, and more. Start with textures You can use rubbings in your journals and scrapbooks. When you travel, rubbings are a great way to preserve visual details from your trips. Try rubbing: Brass plaques and historical markers (make sure that’s permitted, of course) Texturing on…
Elegant Rubbings with Art Foil
You can create elegant rubbings for your art journaling, mixed media art, or decor. Note: Most of these examples were experiments with elegant Halloween decorations, or from an Artfest workshop, “Art Shrines from Dark to Light.” (The theme started at the foot of the shrine, with dark imagery – whatever that meant to the individual…
Edgar Allan Poe Shrine – Free Print
My Edgar Allan Poe shrine was such a success, I scanned it and turned the art into a mini-poster. You can download it and print it.You can download a free print of this shrine. It’s in PDF format, designed to print at 150dpi on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet of paper. (In the UK:…
Asparagus Wand
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, Applefaerie, and me. The Asparagus Wand is shown below. It started in Michael’s Arts & Crafts store, when my daughter and I were wandering the aisles…
Capolan exchange: Relic Room Assemblage
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,…
Easy Embellished Vinyl Tote Bag
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…