Grungy Gear by Lanette Erickson

 

 

Hello all you lovely crafty souls!

 

Today I am sharing a wall hanger inspired by the beautiful texture and colors over on the Art Daily Cafe Group. I just could get the picture out of my mind and I just bought Finn's New Large Gears Mould, that I absolutely love! So I decided to alter this eight inch MDF gear that I had in my stash.

With the colors and the theme of "Breaking the Rules"  from the board in mind. I started arranging and attaching all my bits of resin. Next I started layering color and texture with lots of Texture Fantasy Paste. This is my bit of rule breaking.... While I love these colors I typically don't use them together. 

 

If you would like to see how I altered this gear, you can check it out over on my YouTube channel start to finish.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  I hope I have inspired you in some small way to get out of your comfort zone and get a little paint on your hands! Until next time, 

Hugs & Have fun creating!
-Lanette

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Men's panel by Natalya Trofimova

 

Hi everybody!
I present to you a Men's panel to inspire you! 

Enjoy watching the tutorial! 

Hugs, Natalya.

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Happy (and Creative) Women's Day! :)

Is there anyone celebrating today? :)
Well...here on Mixed Media Place we don't really need any special occasion to play with delicious media, paints and stamps but today we actually have a reason to celebrate - Girl Power! ;)
Just take a look!

In some countries March 8th is a very special day. It's Women's Day. I couldn't miss this occasion and prepared my "power of femininity" collage with special dedication for all of you, Ladies. :)
I wish you that every day is full of happiness and love for you.

A simple way to create an interesting background for mixed-media collages is to combine tissue with matte medium. Just paint the canvas with a coat of matte medium, apply pieces of tissue paper and let the medium dry.  Next, apply gesso and create texture with acrylic paints and modelling paste.

When the surface is dry, stamp the designs with black Archival Ink. I chose Prima Vintage Vanity Book stamp and 3rd Eye Lines.

I also discovered a new use for my lovely Gelatos. I made a homemade mist mixing water and small pieces of pistachio gelatos. I needed exactly this colour to paint lace in my work. It's really a simple way to make a unique shade of colour of mist that may be missing in your collection.

I cut some small pieces of gelatos means using my knife and mixed them with water. My tip to make the colour lighter or more pastel is to mix such gelatos mist with white Dylusions Ink Spray.

Most of the paper techniques described here on Mixed Media Place blog can also be applied to fabric. I love mixing different materials, bases, media and techniques. In this work I added a layer of embossing powder to the fabric to create a unique embellishment.


The finishing touch of my composition are two clay buttons painted with Luminarte Silks Azurite and purple acrylic paint mixed with white gesso.

I hope that I encouraged you a little bit to experiment with different media, materials and techniques.
See you next time
Justi

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