Mixed Media
Usually First Tuesday of the Month 12.30 - 3.30pm
(no session scheduled at this time due Covid-19)
(Make creative art with what might be to hand)
From Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by British artist Jane Perkins using 'plastic items'
Mixed Media meets on Tuesday afternoons on the first Tuesday of most months. We have a lot of fun, making art that we enjoy, experimenting with different techniques and media. Our aim is not to make polished exhibition pieces (although this has happened) but to enjoy each other's company and try out our ideas in a safe and creative environment.
We would like our group to grow.
Ideas we have looked at include:
Making our own texture paste from PVA glue and talcum powder and exploring how we could use it in our artwork
Collage ~ using all kinds of materials
Mono printing with a Geli plate ~ great for collage and useful for backgrounds
Textures using tissue paper
Mark making ~ lots ~ including drawing with ink on a long stick
Mixed Media using water colour with oil pastel, soft pastels and ink or any combination
Journaling and sketch booking
We often work from a still life or from our imagination
And there's more!
'The Light of Day' - Don Meyer - Mixed/Collage - 60x90cm
4 May. First Multi Media (first Arts North website) update since the onset of corona virus. This now-just-completed 'torn-paper' collage takes its title 'The Light of Day' not from any allusion to Corona 'isolation/emergence', but actually because with a 3 to 4 months 'gestation', Don had started to think that the work would never get finished. One (+) for CV?
Mixed Media met today (Mar20) and had an enjoyable session. We had fun experimenting with the Arts North newly-aquired inks, and discovered yes one drop is enough!
We all worked on our own projects, but as always enjoy the company and gained inpiration and ideas from one another.
Sue worked on a portrait (her love) with watercolour and pastel; Sophie used an unfamiliar found backing board; Gem enhanced her lifedrawings from Saturday's session with bold explosive colour; Don's patiently executed collage is progressing beautifully and Meredith continued a still life of flowers with collage and acrylic paint.
Arts North End of Year (19) BBQ - a mini promo display of Mixed Media work
"HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY, MIXED MEDIA"
On the first Tuesday in August (19), Mixed Media artists had a go at mono printing using a Gelli Plate (commercial or home made) with acrylic paints. For some of us, it was our first time using this technique and we enjoyed the activity and the surprising results of our endeavours.
Next month, on September 4th, we will use some of these prints as backgrounds for drawing and mark making with a variety of media and tools. We may even have a go at making our own brushes!
'something' done at the time .. not 'mixed media'; just mixed-up artist !
... now it is definitely 'mixed'!
More exploration of 'collage' (May 18) .. (click to enlarge)
"... and one that was prepared earlier".
A Bit of Collage
The group gathered once again in April (2018), this time to explore the use of 'collage' techniques. This involved using pieces cut out from magazines, which were then applied to form an image or used perhaps to develop old painted and drawn art works. Some collage work attempted to render an existing or premeditated image, while other compositions were creatively improvised. Out of this came some striking and highly varied figurative pieces.
'Mixed Media' workshops are planned as a 'First Tuesday of the Month' activity.
"Thanks" to Meredith for helping some of us to add another string to our bow, a most interesting and fun experience.
'Mixed Media' workshops are planned as a 'First Tuesday of the Month' activity.
"Thanks" to Meredith for helping some of us to add another string to our bow, a most interesting and fun experience.
Early explorations
(texture)
