Collage and mixed media art – examples and tutorials, including art journaling, torn paper collage, assemblages, art shrines, and more.
Artist’s journals are illustrated diaries and journals on any theme. An artist’s journal – or art journal – can be a record of your daily thoughts, a travel journal, an exercise or diet diary, a dream journal, a place where you jot down your goals or to-do lists, or… well, almost any record that you’d […]
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This is a collage to honor the music of Dr. John (aka Mac Rebbenack). It’s art I created for the Homage to Music card deck exchange hosted by Red Dog Scott. Dr. John is among my favorite musicians, since I first heard his music around 1970. On an early album, Gumbo, he described his sound
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Breakthrough art – as a process – is sometimes defined as art that challenges the artist. It’s when an artist takes their work in a dramatically different direction, just to see what happens. Maybe they like it. Maybe they hate it. Either way, they learn something about themselves, their art, and their unique creative process.
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This is the second set of scanned pages from the Artfest 2004 collaborative journal. The pages go from left to right in the table below. Thumbnails: Return to the previous page: Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 1
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These are scanned pages of a round-robin style art journal created for Artfest 2004. It is one of two similar (but unique) journals. Participants included: Lisa Guerin, DaNelle Haynes, Tammie Moore, Rhonda Scott, Sabrina Molinar, Shannon Breen, Rose Bedrosian, Jill Haddaway, and me, Aisling D’Art. After I scanned the art in this journal, it was
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The Edgar Allan Poe Art Shrine is one of my favorite assemblages. The elements include a raven printed on muslin, in three sections. I found him in a Dover book, and added color in PhotoShop (Image-> Adjust-> Saturation). Then, I printed him on iron-on tee shirt transfer paper that worked with inkjet printers. (This was
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Art should always be fun, and perhaps a little flippant. Here’s one way to make an art shrine using a small, empty matchbox… the kind you’ll find at a dollar (or £) store. Shrine to the goddess of mascara, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) remains
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This is one of my workshop samples. It’s a pocket shrine in an embellished matchbox. When I made this, I was inspired by a visit to the China pavilion at EPCOT’s World Showcase, in Orlando, Florida. The left photo shows the outside of the shrine, and the right photo shows the matchbox, opened. For this
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I created this pendant shrine for a friend. The symbols in it were specific to her interests. When I started this project, I knew that I wanted to make a pendant/shrine using a matchbox, a Premo-covered book, and hemp and glass beads strung together. The results were fabulous! Here’s how it looks from the outside.
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This is a pocket shrine that I created for an art shrine exchange – an art swap – hosted by Patty Harrison in the UK, September 2000. Artist’s statement: This box represents the “other” world. It’s the fantasy land of the faeries. In legends, it’s a world similar to ours but also different. The black
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